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Subject: Re: Have there been any breakthroughs in computer chess in the past year?

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 10:40:57 06/22/01

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On June 22, 2001 at 13:16:10, derrick gatewood wrote:

>I am not talking about little things that amount to almost no change in playing
>strength.  I am talking about techniques or different algorithms that make the
>program many times faster or make it 100+ points stronger by implementing one
>thing.  I am only talking about software,  not hardware breakthroughs too.
>Thanks for your time.

Probably not.

Small things happen all the time, and maybe they shouldn't be ignored.  Within
the last couple months, Beowulf and Gerbil were released.  Neither one is
particularly strong, but with what they offer as far as examples in Chess code,
I think it's pretty hard to dismiss them just because they may not be cutting
edge.  They may help educate the people who might be cutting edge 5 or 10 years
from now.  So they're nothing to sneeze at.

Pete



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