Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:25:21 01/05/03
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On January 05, 2003 at 08:16:04, Sune Fischer wrote: >On January 05, 2003 at 08:05:18, Uri Blass wrote: > >>This is dependent in the definition of the goal. >>You can also say that the goal is to make your engine stronger when you do not >>care about the competition. > >okay, yes. >One could also say that the computer chess community is challenging the human >chess community, in that sense sharing is great of course. > >But not to care about the competition seems a bit strange, chess is a game so >without competition where is the fun? It is possible to say that the competition is against the old programs and you do not care about losing against new programs. > >>There are a lot of engines when the author publish the source code. >> >>Resp comes with a source code but I think that a page that explain ideas like >>Ed's stuff is more productive for understanding then a new source code because >>in a source code I often do not know where to look and it is easy in Ed's page. > >This is also too generous IMO. > >>>It is less time consuming for everybody, which means Movei will not progress in >>>relative strength, only in absolute strength. >> >>I do not think so. >> >>There are engines that the programmers stopped to work about them so it means >>that movei may improve more relative to them. > >Well IMO it's not as fun beating a 3 year old retired engine as one that was >released yesterday. There are strong engines that the authors stopped to develop. I am going to be happy if movei will beat the crazy bishop or phalanx or Sos and these engines were not updated in 2002. Uri
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