Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 10:40:17 08/28/02
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On August 28, 2002 at 13:23:47, Uri Blass wrote: >I believe that most amateur have simpler evaluation than crafty. >I do not think that it is correct to call crafty evaluation primitive. The thing is that Crafty is open source. I can see everything Robert does, but Robert can't see everything I do. This is pretty much true for any other amateur as well. Because of this, I *know* my program has at least the knowledge of Crafty, and quite a bit more as well. I assume most top amateurs have at least taken a peek at Crafties code as well. But that is plain knowledge. At least (if not more) as important is tuning and debugging. Here, Robert has some 20 years of experience. I have 2. The tuning of Sjeng's knowledge isn't close to the level of what Crafties is, and as a result, even though I have more knowledge and a better search, I was (am?) weaker. >There are things that crafty knows when part of the commercial programs do not >know and I am talking about evaluation > >Here is a simple example > >Crafty knows to evaluate unstoppable passed pawns in pawn endgames. >Junior7 does not know it and needs search to find white's advantage. Wow, that is amazing. -- GCP
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