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Subject: Uri in 2007

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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