Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 13:53:25 06/28/04
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On June 28, 2004 at 10:02:09, Uri Blass wrote: For crafty it is not true that it can beat old software from 3 years ago : Shredder6 was released if i remember well around 1999. It is 5 years old. http://w1.859.telia.com/~u85924109/ssdf/nr032.htm crafty 18.12 at 1.2Ghz K7 against very old stupid slow K6-2 (very slow for 32 bits code) : Shre6UCI K6-2 20-20 Other way around Shre6UCI 1.2Ghz - crafty 18.12 K6-2 : 36-7 http://w1.859.telia.com/~u85924109/ssdf/nr011.htm You are going to lose your bet. >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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