Author: Amir Ban
Date: 10:52:56 08/06/98
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On August 06, 1998 at 12:40:05, fca wrote: > >Making two guesses (first being the "when") who will then be that #1? > >R10? J6? F6? N99? H7? MCP11? Ferr1?? DiepX??? CCTValX? :-) > You are way ahead of me. I'm not done with J5 yet. >>Several of us are now beating CG3. > >Not by *that* much, though, bearing in mind it was out 4yrs ago (assuming no >books)? > That, by the way, was my point. >>The real trick, however, was to do it in 1994. > >Tardis needed now to do that :-) > >Thorsten is quite right IMO highlighting null-move algorithms as being a >significant development.... >So, are the days of clever evaluation function being of paramount (#1) software >(yes, Thorsten, I know hardware jumps have had a much bigger effect, that's why >I put 'software' there so you do not jump at me :-)) ) importance now over? >Views anyone... > I think you have this backward. Genius had very good evaluation for its time, but its strong point was definitively the search. I didn't notice that the null-movers are having a party at the expense of Genius. It's more the programs who are not null-movers who are doing this on the basis of better evaluation. Amir
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