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Subject: Re: A Curiosity: a book by Dan Spracklen.

Author: William H Rogers

Date: 12:12:51 05/07/02

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On May 07, 2002 at 13:44:10, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On May 07, 2002 at 11:11:38, William H Rogers wrote:
>
>>On May 06, 2002 at 22:38:01, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>You mean that Sargon I was using a SEE?
>>>
>>>Because as far as I know Sargon II and the next versions were not. They were
>>>using a real QSearch instead, which made them much stronger.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    Christophe
>>
>>What Sargon I did with its exchange evaluator is to compile a list of all hits
>>on square and then see had the most control it or its opponent. Very
>>rudentmentary at most. It was very much like that proposed by David Levy in one
>>of his earliest books on chess functions.
>
>
>So I guess it was only used at the root of the search?
>
>I think it would have been too expensive to use deeper in the search?

Why do you think that Sargon 1 ran so slow? They learned a lot after that and
Sargon 2 was much better and faster.

>
>
>
>    Christophe



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