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Subject: Re: Live chat with Feng-Hsiung Hsu (of Deep Blue fame) on ICC

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 07:46:16 10/11/02

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On October 11, 2002 at 10:38:12, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On October 11, 2002 at 08:09:59, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>you skip one important point. Because of a simplistic evaluation
>>it was able to get 12.2 ply. If you use a more complex evaluation
>>then you do fullwidth not get 12.2 ply at all, but more like 10.5 ply.
>
>It did evaluation in hardware.  The complexity of the function has NOTHING to do
>with the speed of computing it.  This is obviously something you don't
>understand, or you wouldn't be writing crap like the above, or the below.

You missed Vincents point. His point was that a more complicated
evaluation (with bigger positional scores) will slow down the search
compared to (for example) a piece-square evaluation, because it causes
more instability.

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GCP



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