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Subject: Re: Junior 5 engine - is speed all?

Author: Heiko Mikala

Date: 12:16:45 10/17/98

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On October 17, 1998 at 13:01:27, blass uri wrote:

>On October 17, 1998 at 12:37:37, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>Amir has a strong program that seems to search very deep.
>
>I am not sure about "seem to search very deep"
>If this was the case It was a better solver than other program and I do not see
>that it is better in tactics than other top programs.

Not necessarily. To search deeper you have to be more selective. Being
more selective also means having a bigger chance of missing some important
things. On the other hand you can have a slow program with good extensions
that is tactically strong. I am very sure, that if there were an optimal
selective
program and an optimal "brute-force extender" that both programs would
produce exactly the same results. It's just a question of how you look at it:
cutting out the unimportant things (=beeing selective) or only look at the
important things (=extend). The result should be exactly the same.

Greetings,

Heiko.



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