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Subject: Re: Intelligent answers please!!

Author: Steve Maughan

Date: 09:43:59 11/25/01

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Victor, Fernandez wrote:

>My question is appropriate. The programmers develop their work cuting
>code, so that its program runs quicker, and this way to be able to conquer to
>other programs, but they don't look for a better evaluation algorithm .

Absurdly not true.  I doubt any commercial programmer releases an upgrade
without doing some development of the evaluation function.  Most programmers
spend their time either looking at the search algorithms, the evaluation
function and I assume less than 10% of the time trying to make the existing code
faster.

>I don't know  if Tiger is better that WChess (usign equal hardware), neither
>it interests me , but if I know  that 7 years ago it achieved a better
>performance against GM's with an inferior hardware,  and I don't believe that >the GM underestimates its strength (they were played a lot of money).

Look at the SSDF

http://home3.swipnet.se/~w-36794/ssdf/nr000.htm

>I am not a programmer, alone I buy programs and I believe that every time they
>play worse .

Easy solution to your problems - stop buying chess programs!

Regards,

Steve



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