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Subject: Re: Short chess programs

Author: David Hanley

Date: 14:05:42 09/19/02

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On September 19, 2002 at 16:53:54, Uri Blass wrote:


>I think that speed is the most important thing that can help you to improve your
>program.
>
>Doing your program more than 10 times faster is more important than everything
>that you can add to your evaluation in the near future.
>
>Tscp is not optimized for speed and if tscp is clearly faster than your program
>then it mean that you can get significant improvement by speed improvement.

You are right.  I have not considered speed much at all while programming.  My
idea is to get the program entirely correct with all the features i want, then
to worry about speed if it's still not playing as well as i hope.  But, i am not
intending it to compete against the likes of crafty and yace, but just to play
well ( 2200-2400 ) while being short and clear.  I think i can do that in under
64K of non-obfuscated source code, but i'll see..

>
>If you think about adding evaluation then my opinion is that mobility is the
>most important thing to add.

I need to try that--i currently don't consider it at all, but i know i should..

dave



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