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Subject: Take A Look For Yourself

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 07:43:06 01/16/02

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Programmers keep finding that they get better ratings if they remove knowledge
from their programs, and just go faster for a deeper search.

Why not take a look for yourself?

Download crafty, and look in the evaluate.c module at
ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/v18/

In V17, I did a quick count of how much knowledge there was and found, if memory
serves me correctly, about 150 distinct pieces of knowledge. You are welcome to
repeat this exercise.

-g

On January 15, 2002 at 13:35:38, Joshua Lee wrote:

>What kind of knowledge is not in chessprograms?
>Are there techniques that are too costly but are supposed to be better than
>current methods?



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