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Subject: Re: Engine Design Must be Like Playing Poker

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 18:35:22 11/18/00

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On November 18, 2000 at 18:52:24, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Hi:
>Seems to me that that approach was taken by you very early. I remember the first
>Tiger I tested in my home. Remember our posts and the figh against Kasparov
>dedicated unit? They were incredible selective to the point of Harakiri.
>Fernando


At the time I understood that chess was basically a probability problem, I
turned my program into a very selective searcher. It was back in 1993.

So Tiger since then has always been a very selective program, which takes risks
in looking only at the line it selects. I play poker a lot with my chess
program.



    Christophe



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