Author: martin fierz
Date: 07:37:15 09/16/04
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On September 16, 2004 at 10:11:27, Uri Blass wrote: [snip] >>of course others used SE. if deep blue had been using *anything*, others would >>have tried it too. like everybody playing the kings indian after kasparov did... > >Not everybody > >I did not play the kings indian after kasparov [snip] i know english is not your mother tongue (it's not mine either), but i do hope you realize that "everybody" doesn't mean really everybody here. it means that after kasparov adopted a neglected opening, lots of people followed him. of course not 100%, and not even 50%, but lots of people tried the KID because of kasparov. likewise, i am sure that lots of chess programmers attempted to use SE, because DB used it. i know i attempted to use SE in my checkers program (to no avail). i would have expected that if 10 or 20 programmers used it, at least one would have stood up and said "i tried it and it worked for me, my program X with SE plays Y elo better than without". sergei is the first person i have ever heard saying this, just now. cheers martin
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