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Subject: Re: What Gambit New Paradigm could be...if it exist

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 16:58:59 10/23/00

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On October 23, 2000 at 19:34:45, Ratko V Tomic wrote:

>> Changing the evaluation is not changing a number or two in the source code.
>> It may be changing hundreds of lines in the source code.

<snipped>
>But once you come up with a new function in a prototype you can switch between
>the old and the new in a single program using single a number to represent the
>relative weight of the two (e.g. 0-1, where 0=use old, 1=use new, else anything
>in between).

Anything between may be slower in nodes per seconds because you have to
calculate two different evaluation functions and not only one.

It is possible that using old and using new are the best practical options for
playing strength because of this reason.

Uri



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