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Subject: Re: have the tried and trusted ways of improving chess prgs showing signs de

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 06:49:54 05/13/02

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On May 12, 2002 at 01:37:40, Sean Mintz wrote:

>
>>We have reached GM level and are slowly approaching the super GM level and you
>>want us to throw everything to the trash bin and start over with radically new
>>ideas?
>
>No no no! I do not want us to throw everything away! It's just my opinion that
>there is too much effort in to what we all already know and we aren't really

i see nothing wrong in putting even more effort there :)

>trying anything new. And I don't mean this like one of those ''anything is
>possible'' speeches but main focus of the computer chess world has been very
>small. Someone must agree with me.

i do not agree with you. lately we see all commercial chess programmers
spent loads of time in improving the knowledge in their program. Fact
that Amir writes here that he has last years done nothing on search,
only at evaluation, that is quite a big statement!

Further the limits of computerchess are the limits of the microprocessor
chip: true or false. What else can we all do?





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