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Subject: Re: another assumption

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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