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Subject: Re: Evaluation Autotuning

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 07:02:09 06/28/04

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On June 28, 2004 at 08:54:00, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>Most of you probably know by now that my "secret project" with Bob has been
>evaluation autotuning.

No
It is the first time that I read it.

  I feel that with the improvements in parallel search and
>CPU speed, the evaluation is beginning to be become more important than the
>search in top programs  (e.g. Shredder).

I doubt it.
I think that the relative good result of fruit that have only simple evaluation
terms(still no king safety except king square table not to develop the king in
the opening) and have not special search tricks suggest that writing a program
without bugs is the most important thing to develop a top program.

I guess that after Fabian adds king safety and some more basic knowledge in
evaluation it is going to be better than Crafty of today on one processor and
after some imrovement in the search we are going to have in 2007 a free fruit
with source code that is better than shredder8 on one processor(if you ignore
opening book).

I do not claim that it is going to be better than the commercial of 2007 and of
course the commercial programs are going also to improve.

We are going to see in the future if my prediction is correct.

Uri



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