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Subject: Re: Chess PRogram Improovment

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:30:57 08/15/03

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On August 15, 2003 at 11:21:43, William H Rogers wrote:

>I believe that once a programmer has made his program run as fast as he possibly
>can his only other option is to try to improve his evaluation subroutine. About
>how much time does he spend on this? Probably most of his life.
>Bill

I believe that you are wrong.

Evaluation is only one thing and better extension and pruning or better order of
moves are also important.

Programmers often have bugs in the evaluation when correcting the bugs does not
change significnatly the playing strength.

Uri




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