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Subject: Re: you are misquoting necchi

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:44:01 12/30/03

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On December 30, 2003 at 14:43:41, Uri Blass wrote:


>
>Diminishing returns does not mean that searching deeper does not help.
>
>The tactical barrier exists only in your imagination.

Almost everything he knows exists only there. :)


>>
>>I quoted 12-14 ply always for this.
>>
>>Now Fritz has a bigger evaluatoin function than crafty. Frans told it's *a lot*
>>bigger than what crafty has.
>
>The question is about quality and not about size.
>I doubt if Junior has bigger evaluation than Crafty.
>
>>
>>Don Dailey in selfplay experiments, also at small depths already, clearly showed
>>diminishing returns.
>>
>>All the big tournametns where crafty and you do not show up, show to the
>>commercial participants clearly that another ply deeper doesn't count when
>>compared to improving evaluation function.
>
>No
>
>They prove nothing.
>I also think that the commercial programs have superior search so it is not
>competition between search and evaluation.
>
>>
>>In fact the only reason GCP can shout victory now about diep-sjeng is a very
>>stupid thing my evaluation caused (Qb3??). I could that game not complain about
>>search depth with 512 cpu's!
>
>It only prove that bigger is not better and your evaluation was bigger than the
>opponents but the opponents had always better evaluation.
>
>Uri

Ouch.  There is a comment _I_ would have been proud to write here.

:)

"the biggest evaluation of any computer chess program"

:%s/evaluation/pile of crap/g

:)




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