Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:39:32 12/10/02
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On December 10, 2002 at 12:07:19, Tony Werten wrote: >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. >> >>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. > >You're missing something important. Evaluation improvements are search >improvements as well. > >Tony You are right that if the evaluation is improved programs should see the same by a smaller tree but I still believe that there are a lot of ways to improve the search that are not about changing the evaluation function. Uri
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