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Subject: Re: Chess knowledge and speed.

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 15:53:23 08/18/04

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On August 18, 2004 at 16:59:32, Jonas Bylund wrote:

>Let's say that someone were to cramp as much knowledge in to his/her program
>with the sole purpose of making it stronger for _really_ long analysis/play,
>thus not caring for the loss of speed, would this actually make the program
>stronger for _really_ long games/analysis?

It may make the program weaker because the program may have a lot of new bugs
thanks for the new knowledge.

>
>I have a feeling that most programs are tuned and optimized for standard, rapid
>and blitz play, not for 1 month games :)
>
>My point is that if there is indeed an increase in strenght if you to some
>reasonable extend discard the speed vs. knowledge aspect, couldn't someone make
>a long analysis version of their engine along with their normal engine?

I do not think that the problem is a problem of speed.
The main problem is that you think that programmmers know to give their programs
productive knowledge and the only problem is that their program is going to
become slower if they implement it.

This is not the only problem and in a lot of cases the main problem is to know
if some knowledge is productive and to implement things without bugs.

Programmers have enough problems to find if a new version is better in standard
games and if they try to do their best for that purpose they have not time for
developing a special version that is better for long analysis.

Uri



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