Author: blass uri
Date: 11:56:04 10/20/98
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On October 20, 1998 at 14:03:52, William H Rogers wrote: >It was written years ago by some of the leading chess experts that the day would >come when improvement in chess programs would come to a stop, as the men who >wrote the programs were only looking for faster machines to improve their >programs. The left out opening books (mega sizes), and end games, etc.. >What I propose would be to set some limits on programs, at least in competition >to the following examples; not to say that these are the final numbers. > >All programs would be limited to say 10 moves deep in their opening books and >end game books limited to maybe 4 pieces left on the board for each size. >Thinking on the opponents time is allowed as that is a major part of the chess >programs thinking. Another idea is to limit the moves to a certain ply depth. I do not understand what do you mean. Programs do different extensions so you cannot make all the machines equal by a cetain brute force depth. >This would make all programs more equal as to machine speed. > >In my opinion, if and when, ideas of this nature are set as a standard, we will >once again see major chess improvements in programming and that is what it is >suppost to be all about. I think that we see all the time improvement in programming and I am not talking of opening books or tablebases. >Even if a single person sets these perimeters, if they can, the true strenght of >the programs can be really realized. I think that the best programs are also best if we will give them to play without opening books. I think that the opening books and tablebases do not influence more than 50 elo Uri
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