Author: William H Rogers
Date: 17:05:24 10/20/98
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I did not mean to imply that getting a faster machine was the only thing that influenced people, although when a programmer comes to a mental block for new ideas, that may be his only solution. In the freeware testing of games Rebel beat MChess without ever leaving his books. That turned Rebel in that game only, as a device for looking up moves. The real engine of the program did not ever come into play. Almost all chess programs give you the option of turning off the books and I think that the real strength of the program then comes into view. That is all that I was suggesting. MChess is not a simple minded program, but it fought against a proven line of game logic and lost before the other program started to use its logical engine. If you wrote a program that only had a limited book and had to compete with other programs with unlimited books, the advantage would be thiers, reguardless of your programs playing strength. I was only suggesting an idea to make all programs operate on an even keel so as to help programmers in improving their ware. I beleive that for personal use, it all systems go. The more the better except in contests. But I may be wrong.
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