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Subject: Re: What is Wrong with Shredder 7.0.4's Position Evaluations?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:53:53 09/12/03

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On September 12, 2003 at 13:33:36, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On September 12, 2003 at 13:24:32, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>With all these problems it drew 4 games against Sjeng1.5 in Leo's tournament
>
>But it's still doing quite a bit worse overall :)
>
>>Crafty is a weaker program than the commercial but suggesting that it is
>>inferior in everything is wrong.
>
>I never say it was weaker in everything. But I _know_ it's worse
>in evaluation and extensions, and some parts of the pruning can
>be made safer.
>
>I can see what Bob does (credits to him for that), and I can test
>what he does, and I know it's worse than what I do.

You need first to understand exactly what he does and it is not a simple task.
I think that most programmers have no time for that task and they prefer to work
about their program independently.

They may look at Crafty but not try to copy everything there in order to compare
with Crafty.

Uri



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