Author: Steve Maughan
Date: 14:29:26 03/12/04
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Dann, >As Christophe has often said: >"Search is also a form of knowledge." I have pondered this recently and it's definitely true. One interesting observation that I made pertaining to this point is when I played Monarch (AMD 2600) v Palm Tiger (33 Mhz DragonBall). As I've said Monarch has a very basic evaluation - especially compared to Tiger's. The interesting thing was that throughout the games Monarch was significantly outsearching Tiger - to be expected with the difference in hardware. As a result even though Monarch had a much more basic evaluation, the positional score shown by Monarch was much more stable throughout the game than that of Tiger's. Now normally stability of score = understanding of position = knowledge. So I can only conclude / confirm that addition search depth = knowledge. I'd also agree with Christioph that it's difficult to add knowledge that can compensate for only one addition ply of search. Basically search rulez in computer chess! Regards, Steve
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