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Subject: Re: Urgently Needed: Catalogue of Already Invented Ideas

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 16:58:16 08/28/98

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On August 28, 1998 at 15:32:41, Inmann Werner wrote:

>Your idea is good,but the real good ideas, which make the difference between
>the profi programs and amateur programs, nobody will tell. All other ideas
>are discussed here, and are in "Crafty", which everybody can download as a
>source. On the other side, a compendium about known ideas would be great.
>But if somebody does all this known things together, he has no "super" chess
>programm.

You are right, but remember I don't think of it as a mean to program, but just
to avoid in our post precisely what is common, comodity kind of knowledege en
this field. The idea is: let's amateurs don't be deceived by inspirations that
tend to be just bad memory or ignorance.
Fernando



I tried to put everything I heard in my programm, and Inmichess till
>now is not super. Why? Because all this things must fit together. Its like
>"chaos theory". Only a small change and the system gets to chaos. I have spent
>nights in writing really good code with very good ideas, and the whole system
>did not fit together.(Especially evaluation and speed).
>So the normal stuff as alpha beta, null move, hashing etc. you can describe.
>But then the tuning begins.....
>
>Werner



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