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Subject: Re: Resuts of the Dutch open championship

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 07:45:04 12/10/02

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On December 10, 2002 at 09:59:56, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 10, 2002 at 09:20:02, Nicolas GUIBERT wrote:
>
>>>hello, the size of the evaluation of napoleon is only limited by the
>>>time i spent to it. I have 40 pages of evaluation patterns and ideas
>>>from Marcel to the left of this keyboard. For this tournament i could
>>>only implemet page 1 and 2. So i added 40 new patterns/bugfixes to
>>>the evaluation for last tournament the 2 evenings before the blitz
>>>tournament.
>>
>>Good luck then for these 40 pages. I also have a long, long, long, never-ending,
>>to-do list... :o)))
>>
>>>In C code expressed it is in total let me check:
>>>
>>>4000 source code lines.
>>>
>>>That ain't much IMHO, knowing i have a multiple of that in DIEP.
>>
>>How much in Diep ?
>>4000 is indeed way insufficient.
>>
>>>But it is probably more than most draughts programs (and way more
>>>than most chess programs).
>>
>>Really ? How much do you think it is for other top level chess programs ?
>
>He talked only about most program and not about most top program.

i don't know about buggy (Nicolas plays draughts at the same
level that i play chess) but when compared to the rest for sure yes.

>The latest version of movei(that is not freeware) is not a top program but I
>believe that it is better than most chess programs(there are a lot of free chess
>programs and it is hard to know if it is better than most of the chess programs
>because the question is what is the level of the private programs)
>
>It has only about 200 lines of C codes that are used for evaluation.
>I am interested more in search improvements then in evaluation improvements.
>Uri

Then you will of course never make it to the top.

Best regards,
Vincent




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