Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:21:55 10/19/01
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On October 19, 2001 at 03:02:28, José Carlos wrote:
> Ok. It seems we agree in the background, but disagree in the surface. Software
>is much better now, true. Hardware has helped software developement, true. The
>point we disagree in can (I think) be said in a line:
> I believe that, if Frans would have back then the kind of hardware we have
>now, Fritz 3 would be much stronger, much closer to Fritz 7. And for the same
>reason, if we had now exactly the same machines as at that time, we couldn't
>have done many of the things we do now. That's all.
Many improvements in software do not involve having a better hardware, they just
involve having time to work on the program, having ideas and having time to
implement them.
It just takes time to imagine the new search algorithms and to work out all the
cases where your evaluation fails. For example it takes time to evaluate better
the passed pawns, and I can tell you it does not involve having a better
computer...
Fritz3 is pretty poor at evaluating passed pawns. Frans did not need a better
computer to solve this, he just needed more time to work on the program, and
that's why Fritz4 was better in this regard, then Fritz5 was better and so on.
In chess programming, I think the human parameter is much more important than
you believe.
Christophe
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