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Subject: Re: top 30

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 18:00:36 11/29/02

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On November 29, 2002 at 19:10:40, Joshua Haglund wrote:

>What would the top 30 engines be without an opening book or learn files?

In private testing I use the same book for all engines
and disable learning. The results I get aren't spectacularly
different from what, say, the SSDF gets.

Not so surprising considering the quality of the book and
the learning tends to be related to the quality of the
rest of the engine.

>Who did the best programming then ?

Implementing good learning doesn't count for being a good
programmer? Optimizing the engine to play without book
is good programming?

I don't think so.

I'll tell you who the best programmers are: they're the
ones on top of the SSDF list.

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GCP



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