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Subject: Re: Fast HW

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 12:39:19 12/15/01

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On December 15, 2001 at 12:47:50, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On December 15, 2001 at 12:16:00, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>>What would you characterize as the biggest improvement you made?
>
>I realized there was no single big improvement waiting
>to be made.

Hmm, I realize that wasn't very helpfull in itself, so I'll clarify:

There is no single thing you can fiddle with and make
your program suddenly a lot stronger.

It's a process of making steps. Big steps. Small steps.
Sometimes you need to make small steps before you can
make a big step.

Prioritizing may be the issue. A good method is to try
to determine why you are losing games. Are you constantly
missing tactics other people see? Are you getting attacked
and crushed? Are you blowing endgames?

Fix the weakest link.

When you are not progressing as good or as fast as you'd
like to, it helps to take a step back and consider not just
your engine, but the whole process of working on it and see
where improvements can be made.

--
GCP



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