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Subject: Re: Verified Null-Move Pruning, ICGA 25(3)

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 09:18:10 11/26/02

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On November 26, 2002 at 07:09:07, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On November 25, 2002 at 22:32:28, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>>No. Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned it - it's not really fair
>>>to Omir as he does publish his stuff.
>>
>>In that case, I'll take it as a courtesy if you don't criticize any work I
>>happen to publish because it uses node counts instead of wall clock timings.
>
>I don't think it's fair to say 'what you published is crap, I have
>something much better but I'm not telling you what and I'm not going
>to publish it or post test results from it'.
>
>I think it's fair to say 'what you published is crap because you did
>not test it correctly and you compared only to inferior methods whereas
>better methods were already known and published'
>
>I don't think it's fair to criticise Omir because his scheme does
>not work in my engine. I think it's fair to criticise him because
>he did not include Heinz scheme in his tests.
>

What do you mean by "he did not include Heinz scheme in his tests"?

Omid (not Omir!)


>Even though he did not test nodes or time to solution and I think
>it's necessary to do so, I'm not going to criticise him for not doing
>so, although I'll explain why I think it's needed. Omir is young and
>to get published it is easier to do as has been done before you because
>it will get you accepted more easily.
>
>But please consider that many breakthroughs were made because people
>_didn't_ do that.
>
>I'll applaud the first one to publish an academic paper to use
>nodes (if NPS is proven to be unaffected by the change) or time to
>solution as the primary measure in the test results.
>
>If that's you, then, well
>
>*clap* *clap* *clap* *clap*
>
>--
>GCP



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