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Subject: Re: What about evaluation, Ed?

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 15:15:12 01/04/03

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On January 04, 2003 at 18:03:02, Uri Blass wrote:

>I believe that I have ideas that are not used by Ed

So do I, but it still raises the bar for everyone.

>but I want to understand the
>ideas that Ed use.
>I do not believe that the fact that Ed exposes ideas will make
>it harder for me to compete(there are still a big bumber of ideas and the ideas
>of Ed give me inspiration to find more ideas).

You have Crafty, open source, at 2500~2550 and the commercials are only ~150-250
better. Now with Ed's ideas exposed the gap narrows even more.

I think in a sport like this there should be _some_ secrets. It is interesting
to study Ruffian solving a problem, looking at the pv and figuring out for
yourself what kind of extensions and tricks he must be using. I get no
satisfaction from things being handed to me on a silver plate, I prefer to get
the ideas myself.

>programmers who use incremental move generator may have more problems to compete
>because they can implement less ideas if they do not rewrite their program from
>scratch.

Not a problem, I can turn incremental generation off, it's just my movegen is
split in two halfs, I could spilt it in three or none at all, no problem.

-S.
>Uri



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