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Subject: Re: What about evaluation, Ed?

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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