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Subject: Re: question for programmers: fast or slow searchers,what is better?

Author: Don Dailey

Date: 13:03:55 09/17/98

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On September 16, 1998 at 12:09:31, blass uri wrote:

>I believe a slow searcher can be better because you must have a slow searcher to
>evaluate which lines are more important to analyze.
>
>I think that a slow searcher can be better also in test positions than fast
>searcher because of this reason.
>
>What do you think about it?

It depends on which program plays the better moves.  You can always
play better chess with a deeper search, and you can also always play
better chess with more evaluation.   If you have a program that is
extremely slow it had better have superb evaluation.  If it is
extremely simple in the static evaluation function, it had better
be awful fast.   The trick is to go for both, as much knowledge
as possible, as fast as possible.   There is no meaningful answer
to your question except to say that the program that makes the
best tradeoff between search speed and these other factors will
be the strongest program.

- Don



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