Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:08:36 06/20/02
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On June 20, 2002 at 04:41:44, Russell Reagan wrote: >On June 20, 2002 at 00:59:42, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>That is why I _still_ maintain that 90% of the aggregate computer chess >>advancements were academia-based. Because all academia-developed ideas have >>been published for all to see, increasing the body of computer-chess knowledge >>slowly but surely. > >So, for example, alpha-beta and null-move were published, so they are in common >usage today and have advanced computer chess overall. What Fritz, Junior, Tiger, >Shredder, Rebel, etc. do is unpublished, so their achievements have done nothing >to further the computer chess community as a whole. I disagree. It may be possible to learn from games against commercial programs. It is also possible to look at the main lines of them and try to guess what they did. Uri
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