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Subject: Re: cross posting is very annoying, can you stop it ?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 11:19:43 08/17/02

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On August 17, 2002 at 12:51:26, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:

Am i the only one who isn't reading the winboard forum?

I find his posting very on topic!

>I read your post on the winboard forum. Please dont post it twice.
>
>Note I am not saying that there might not be *some* posts that might deserve to
>be posted on multiple fora.
>
>Here is my reply from the winboard forum:
>
>Hi there,
>
>the question is not fast or selective. The top programs of today are both
>searching a lot of positions per second, and are also very selective at deciding
>which positions to look at. Improving the speed (nodes per second) and the
>quality of the selection (better extension tuning, better razoring, better
>q-search rules to name a few standart ideas) both helps.
>
>Bitboard board representation has nothing to do with that at all btw., buzz
>words are only good when used in the right meaning.
>
>All in all I would suggest you try write your own program. It is a lot of fun.
>It also teaches you that most brilliant ideas don't work. But if you get one of
>them to work, you will feel like the king of the universe.
>You could name your program enginE :-)
>
>Georg



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