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Subject: Re: minimardi - "Oh No! not another simple chess program"

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 00:41:32 08/29/03

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On August 28, 2003 at 14:24:28, minimardi wrote:

>Yes, it's true, minimardi is here.
>
>www.csd.uu.se/~jufe1771/minimardi/minimardi.html,
>
>Now, let your program beat minimardi.
>
>Source soon to be available for download.

I do not understand the meaning of
"oh no not another simple chess program"

no not may mean yes so it may mean that it is another simple chess program but
it also may mean oh no,not another simple chess program that your program can
beat.

I suggest that in order to make things clear you write one of the 2 following
options:

1)Another simple chess program
2)Not another simple chess program

Note that I do not know what you mean by simple so I cannot tell by looking at
the page if you mean to say  that it is  a simple chess program.

Different people may mean different things by simple and some people may say
that a program with hash tables is not simple when other people may say that it
is not enough to call it not simple.

Even in case that I could guess what you mean by simple I cannot know
if minimardi is simple without knowing what is included in the evaluation.

Note that I did not download the program after reading that it does not use null
move pruning and I read no killer move in the move ordering.

I guess based on that data it is probably clearly weaker than mine that has not
only null move pruning but also some other pruning ideas that I do not plan to
make public.

Uri




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