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Subject: Re: New SSDF-list

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 11:43:25 02/24/98

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>>no - the fast searchers have - for the first time in the history of
>>computerchess and ssdf-list, overtaken the knowledged based programs.
>>THATS the big surprise.
>
>
>you haven't been around long enough to say that.  Can you spell Chess
>4.x?


Bob - i was born 1966 ! :-)
the first chess-computer I registered was Fidelity 7 or Chess Champion
MK1 and this was 1979 or 78.


>they went from smart/selective to dumb/fast, and set the world on fire.

How poetic :-)

>Cray Blitz went from smart/selective to dumb/fast (at first) and went
>way
>up in speed, with a real rating of 2258 (USCF) in 1980.  There's nothing
>new here at all.  You simply find that there are two approaches.  Fast
>means simple, which translates into easy debugging issues.  Smart means
>complex, which translates into complex debugging issues.  Although I
>don't
>agree that Rebel is a slow/smart program when it is faster than Crafty
>on
>equal hardware...

Rebel is fast, but knowledged !



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