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Subject: Re: What about evaluation, Ed?

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 03:28:00 01/05/03

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On January 05, 2003 at 05:20:44, Uri Blass wrote:

>I believe that there are still a lot of simple ideas that can be productive for
>chess programs and for programs of other games.

Perhaps, I guess that is why they keep going.

>I believe that it is possible to be 10 times faster than the commercial programs
>so I do not think that the new ideas will get smaller.

I have no doubt that you have ideas that could improve Movei, but I have doubt
whether your ideas are better than those used today by the commercials.
Having an idea and having an idea that _works_ are two different things, even
worse: what works for a 2300 engine might not work for a 2600 engine ;)

>The page of Ed is not chinese and I believe that there are a lot of ideas that
>are easy to explain.

The best ideas are often the simple ones.

>I have hopes that the recapture extension in a similiar way to the way that is
>explained by Ed will give movei a push forward.
>
>I am not sure if I understand it correctly and I think that an example with the
>values of all the varaibles can be more productive then only a definition.

You want it on a silver plate, for free without any effort on your part?
Why not simply buy Rebel and save a lot of time? ;)

-S.

>Uri



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