Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 21:59:34 04/11/03
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On April 11, 2003 at 14:41:07, Keith Evans wrote:
>On April 11, 2003 at 12:20:31, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On April 11, 2003 at 00:43:18, Jay Urbanski wrote:
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>>>On April 11, 2003 at 00:22:49, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>My goal is to have the strongest chess program running on single processor
>>>>computers. Whatever the size of these computers.
>>>
>>>That's an interesting but it seems somewhat arbitrary goal. Why have this
>>>limitation? You might as well say your goal is to have the fastest engine
>>>running on a CPU that is half as fast as is currently available on the market.
>>
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>>The idea is that I am more interesting in progress in the chess algorithms than
>>in progress in hardware, because I believe that there is a lot to gain with
>>better algorithms.
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>>I will benefit from progress in hardware even if I don't care about it anyway.
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>>This week end I have participated in a human chess tournament with the PalmOS
>>version of Chess Tiger running on a Tungsten-T (2150 FIDE elo approx.). Chess
>>Tiger was not in the competition, so I went there just for fun.
>>
>>THAT is really interesting. A lot of fun, and it really makes the years I have
>>spent on the project worth it.
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>> Christophe
>
>Besides not getting too excited about SMP, does the fact that you're targeting
>mobile devices have a significant impact on your engine's development? For
>example are you building more and more endgame knowledge into the engine rather
>than focusing on support for larger and larger tablebases?
>
>Keith
Yes I always keep on adding endgame knowledge and try to not rely exclusively on
endgame databases.
I'm not saying that I do not support the use of endgame databases. But in
general adding endgame knowledge helps even if you are using them anyway.
Christophe
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