Author: William H Rogers
Date: 08:49:19 08/15/03
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On August 15, 2003 at 11:30:57, Uri Blass wrote: >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. Uri, look at the first sentence in my previous post. I assume that he has done all of the things that you mentioned. Once a program has been optimized the only thing left is to try to make the evals better. With the exception of speed the main difference in all of todays chess programs is the evals. Respectfully Bill >Programmers often have bugs in the evaluation when correcting the bugs does not >change significnatly the playing strength. > >Uri
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