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Subject: Re: Victory for Computer Chess (!) = Waterloo

Author: martin fierz

Date: 18:20:37 10/08/02

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On October 08, 2002 at 14:30:42, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On October 08, 2002 at 14:26:38, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>I think you may be making a generalization here. You may be right about Fritz
>>(and others I may be unaware of). But The King engine in CM9000 actually
>>searches a tiny bit SLOWER in terms of NPS than the engine in CM8000, and yet
>>independent tests (mostly by users on this board) have shown it to be anywhere
>>from 30-100 points stronger than the previous version, thanks to improvements in
>>the EVALUATION (or, to use your term, quality).
>>
>>jm
>
>i bought cm4,6, and 8000.
>i did not buy cm9000 so far.
>the odd numbers seem to be problematic for me :-))
>
>it might be that it is slower and better.
>my point was that the programs should IMO learn to develop a plan, to
>create a thesis instead of doing SEARCH and NPS.
>
>i will wait until ssdf has tested CM9000 and THEN decide to buy it or not.

thorsten, i'm shocked! did you just write that you are going to make a decision
based on SSDF results?? aren't these the guys who produce lots of irrelevant
stats? :-)

aloha
  martin

>It was not my intention to call all programs going backwards.
>
>Only that i have the feeling that the competition with fritz
>is not making the programs much more cleverer.



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