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Subject: Re: What about evaluation, Ed?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:49:40 01/05/03

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On January 05, 2003 at 06:28:00, Sune Fischer wrote:

>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.

I want to understand what is done.
I did not say that I plan to copy the ideas exactly as they are(I plan to modify
them).

I enjoy understanding and improvement and the ideas of Ed already inspired me to
do movei 5% faster after understanding that having more functions may help me
not only to implement Ed's ideas but also to do my move generator faster.

Uri



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