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Subject: Re: Is increase in Century 3 speed done at the price of positional play?

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 03:18:57 12/19/00

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On December 19, 2000 at 05:56:48, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On December 19, 2000 at 04:48:18, José Carlos wrote:
>
>>On December 19, 2000 at 01:39:17, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>
>>>On December 18, 2000 at 19:10:50, Frank Wolf wrote:
>>>
>>>>I have read where Century 3 does better than Century against other computer
>>>>programs due to its faster search.  How is this possible without a sac of
>>>>positional knowledge?
>>>
>>>That is a good question.
>>>
>>>First, I have not removed any chess knowledge. That Century 3 is a lot
>>>faster anyway is because of improved and new search algorithms. Some
>>>very important search idea's came from my partner Christophe and vice
>>>versa. As you know 2 know more than 1. After 18 years I am still surprised
>>>about the things I still don't know and I am sure there is a lot more
>>>to discover and explore.
>>>
>>>Ed
>>
>>  It'd be great if, someday, people with your experience and knowledge could
>>tell us all of these interesting ideas that come and go... ;)
>>  Thanks godness we have Bob and the other "amateur experts" :)
>>
>>  José C.
>
>One day when I retire from the competition I will put the whole stuff on
>the Internet.
>
>Ed

I hope it will take much time until that happens. :-)




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