Author: Uri Blass
Date: 07:08:40 12/11/02
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On December 11, 2002 at 10:00:38, Johan Hutting wrote: >On December 11, 2002 at 07:44:43, Sune Fischer wrote: > >>Chess is primarily tactics, > >Vincent does have a point, to get into a position where you can use those >tactics you require positional knowledge. Any 1600+ rated player can tell you >that :) search can help also for better positional moves. > >My guess is Uri uses a very simple patzer eval with big bonusses for good pieces >along with a fast search. So far it makes movei play good, but if you wish to >improve you'll run into a wall. Movei is still not optimized for speed. I use no assembler in movei and there are other things that can be improved. I believe that it is possible to improve the search algorithms. I do not believe that I am going to run into a wall about improving the search. > >>if you have near _optimal_ extensions and near >>_optimal_ pruning rules, then you could probably get those extra plies on your >>opponent and could win WCCC using tactics. > >but, with a bigger eval and good pruning you will still search the promising >lines deeper, right? yes but the point is that I believe that the search algorithm of the good programs can be improved significantly. Uri
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