Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:30:58 01/16/02
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On January 16, 2002 at 10:43:06, Graham Laight wrote: >Programmers keep finding that they get better ratings if they remove knowledge >from their programs, and just go faster for a deeper search. while I can't speak for everybody, I can speak for me, and this is not necessarily true. If you look at my evaluation code over the past 5 years, it has steadily gotten _bigger_... and the only times that it has shrunk significantly was when I found something that worked very well and then took the time to make it more efficient after deciding it was worth keeping. I can't say whether others have "slimmed down" or not. But my NPS has _steadily_ gone down, while "strength" has slowly gone upward... I suspect this is necessary to compete with GM players and not fear going into endgames. Against computers I don't know since I don't pay a lot of attention to that, particularly. It is likely that a program to compete against computers will do worse against humans...
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