Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 17:37:22 02/22/02
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On February 21, 2002 at 16:57:38, Bill McGaugh wrote:
>Is your hypothesis that more chess knowledge means better relative performance
>at longer time controls?
>
>Which programs would you classify as having more chess knowledge? How can we
>tell? What do you mean by chess knowlege? Is a clever search algorithm chess
>knowledge?
The program with the best chess knowledge is the program that plays the best
chess, that is the one that wins more games.
So yes, clever search is chess knowledge. Naturally.
Most people assume that "more knowledge" means "more things in the evaluation
function". This is shortsighted. I have spent years adding "knowledge" in the
way my program was searching the chess tree.
If you think chess program's evaluations are nowhere near GM's evaluations (of
the positions), then I can tell you that chess programs are nowhere near GMs in
term of search. "Knowledge" can be added in search as well, there is room for
improvement here.
Christophe
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