Author: Martin Giepmans
Date: 07:43:05 01/05/03
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On January 04, 2003 at 17:45:45, Sune Fischer wrote:
>On January 04, 2003 at 17:31:42, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On January 04, 2003 at 16:49:25, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On January 04, 2003 at 16:42:12, David Rasmussen wrote:
>>>
>>>>Is there going to be a paragraph on evaluation on your page, Ed?
>>>>
>>>>/David
>>>
>>>
>>>I think that it is better first to fix the misunderstanding about things that
>>>are done in the search.
>>>
>>>It is better to understand one thing than not to understand 2 things.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>I want to make clear that I do not say that I do not understand nothing of the
>>search but I believe that the search information is more important and I think
>>that it is better to have exact explanation of what is done in the search and
>>not some information about the search and about the evaluation when we do not
>>understand 100% of it and part of it may be misleading.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Why are you so glad about all these tricks being exposed anyway?
>It is only to the advantage of the great programmers, implementation is all that
>is left when there are no more secrets.
>
>It just raises the level so it becomes harder and harder to compete and all
>programs will converge to the same strength. There is not much sport in that
>IMO.
>
>One of Ed's ideas was already on my todo-list, now it's on everybodys todo list!
>I'm not sure how I feel about that....
>
>-S.
I also had some doubts (which I expressed in earlier posts), but in the mean
time I realized that many of the ideas that Ed revealed till now are not
useful in other engines, because:
(a) they are incompatible with the global structure/flow of the engine
(a major rewrite would be needed to use them)
and/or
(b) the engine already uses other tricks that do the same job
So I guess there is after all not much damage to the sport.
Martin
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