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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