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Subject: Re: why is open file code such a big deal for programmers?

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 06:24:40 11/17/03

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On November 17, 2003 at 08:48:30, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 17, 2003 at 07:40:46, martin fierz wrote:
>
>>On November 17, 2003 at 04:51:55, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>>
>>>On November 17, 2003 at 04:20:42, martin fierz wrote:
>>>
>>>[snip]
>>>
>>>>the real question should be: why do programs like fritz play these closed
>>>>positions worse than any 2000 player? fritz' programmers surely know about
>>>>those weaknesses, why have they never been addressed? with a whole team of
>>>>professionals working on it...
>>>
>>>Because it won't give you anything for the SSDF rating list?
>>>
>>>It probably takes much more work than just a few if-statements here and there,
>>>so if you're not committed to playing against humans, it probably won't happen
>>>that fast.
>>
>>it probably also takes much more than just a few if-statements here and there
>>for fritz to be the engine it is now :-)
>>and since frans morsch has claimed to have been optimizing against human play
>>over the last year (lame excuse for no progress or something else?), he should
>>definitely have addressed this issue.
>
>It is obviously a lame excuse as the last game proved.
>I guess that Fritz did not get better because the programmer is tired of working
>about it.
>
>It happened to Richard Lang and now it seems to happen to Frans morsch.
>
>Uri

Do you know any chess program that has solved the problems of long term planning
in closed position?

Torstein



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