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Subject: Re: Let's talk about fraud.

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:24:28 05/04/04

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On May 04, 2004 at 06:06:34, Mridul Muralidharan wrote:

>On May 03, 2004 at 15:07:50, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On May 03, 2004 at 14:18:33, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On May 03, 2004 at 13:35:38, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>I know you do not believe a thing, especially not things where 10 people are a
>>>witness from in the dutch computer chess championship.
>>
>>I do not believe that these 10 people know what he does.
>>I do not know what he says but in case that he says that he is working a full
>>year only to get 0.5% speed imporovement or even 10% speed improvement(I did not
>>hear it from other people except you) then my assumption is that he gives
>>disinformation because it does not make sense to do it.
>>
>>Uri
>
>I am not sure of that Uri , I do remember Johan saying that it is getting
>increasingly tough to improve King.
>Similarly maybe for fritz - when your engine is so well optimised with author
>having worked on finetuning it for decades (like fritz) , then the number of
>possible avenues for improving it , while keeping existing strength intact, will
>become very tough.
>
>So maybe Frans Morch , SMK , Johan , Christoher , etc do find it tough to
>improve things which should have almost no negetive impact on current
>performance.
>
>Mridul

SMK clearly gets more than 10 elo in a year.
Same for Frans morch.

I believe that there is a big room for search improvments in chess programs and
programs search too many illogical lines so it is a big mistake to work on speed
improvement when it is possible to get more improvement by other means.

Uri



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