Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:47:09 07/16/04
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On July 16, 2004 at 07:08:52, Steve Coladonato wrote: >I tend to agree with you and have posted previously on this subject. The book >is human not engine. You will see comments about the recent WCCC match and see >where so and so had an inferior position out of book. > >I have suggested in the past that to truly test the engine, the books should be >the same and even suggested a book depth of between 12 and 20 moves (24-40 ply). > In the past, before Shredder was Chessbase, I felt that Stefan Meyer-Kahlen's >algorithms or heuristics were a bit better than the competition (I haven't >followed Shredder very much since it was acquired). > >Today, I believe the improvements in the performance of the engines is mainly >attributed to the hardware not anything the programmers have done. I think that it is dependent on the programmer and you cannot generalize. There are programmers who do almost no progress in software and there are programmers who get significant progress. programs that did significant progress in the last year are mainly weaker than the commercial programs(Thinker,Fruit,Gothmog) but it is possible that at least one of them may become better than the commercial programs in the near future. I am also not sure about progress of Shredder and Junior since the last version and we will know better when the ssdf tests Shredder9 and Junior9. Uri
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