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Subject: Re: Free Programs of today are better than Commercial were 3 years ago !

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 02:02:58 03/26/04

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On March 26, 2004 at 04:43:23, Uri Blass wrote:

>On March 26, 2004 at 01:59:07, Tord Romstad wrote:
>
>>On March 25, 2004 at 16:29:24, Darren Rushton wrote:
>>
>>>Think you will find that Fritz 6 came out in 1999 - you're taling about a FIVE
>>>year old program.
>>
>>Not important.  I don't use any techniques which were not commonly known in
>>1999 (or 1995, for that matter).
>
>I think that you use a lot of techniques that were never tried by the top
>programs in 1999 or 1995.
>
>I can say that for me the motivation to start chess programming was because I
>considered chess programs as weak based on my observations(including the
>commercial programs).
>
>I am talking about search and not about evaluation(chessmaster6000 that was ssdf
>leader after 1995 has an option to show the line that it searches every 1/2
>second and I could see for example that it searches for a long time bad lines
>when at some point the side to move is losing because of mate in 1 or a move
>that obviously win material but chessmaster simply did not search that mate but
>a different line,I did not buy chessmaster9000 but I suspect that
>chessmaster9000 suffers from the same problem).

I forgot to add that my suspect is based on a post of John merlino
when chessmaster search for a long time move X but after playing move X it had
no problem to see mate for the opponent.

It is not to say something bad about chessmaster and I believe that almost all
programs including my program can suffer from the same problem.

Uri



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