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Subject: Re: Request for Ed: Rebel with all the Chess knowledge available.

Author: Jonas Bylund

Date: 03:54:47 08/03/03

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On August 03, 2003 at 06:50:25, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 03, 2003 at 05:45:42, emerson tan wrote:
>
>
>> Of course given enough depth, most chess
>>programs can give good evaluation, but there are still a lot of positions that
>>are far beyond the search depth of top engines on the most powerful hardware,
>>and it is here where chess knowledge is needed.
>
>Based on my understanding increasing the chess knowledge in Rebel is not going
>to help it to understand these positions.
>
>I understood that
>Rebel does the full evaluation at every node except the leaves so I guess that
>if it can see something important in the tree before the leaves then it is going
>to see it also in the leaves.
>
>Cases when something important is generated only in the leaves can be detected
>with less chess knowledge (maybe even faster) thanks to deeper search.
>
>In order to change my mind
>I need to see a case when knowledge does not help to detect the problem one or 2
>plies earlier but help to detect the problem 10 plies earlier.
>
>If Rebel with full knowledge say +1 for white at plies 5-10 when default Rebel
>say evaluations near +1 for black at plies 5-15 then it is going to be a
>convincing evidence that knowledge in Rebel is what you think about when you use
>that word.
>
>Uri

But how can we know without trying it?

This has the potential to be a very interesting experiment!

Jonas



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