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Subject: Re: Junior 9 Test (40'/40) after 300 games

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 11:29:53 01/01/05

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On January 01, 2005 at 11:26:19, James T. Walker wrote:

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>Really?  Compare Chess Tiger 14/15/2004.  Compare Fritz 7/8.  Even Shredder 7/8
>has a small improvement.  And my results on Junior 8/9 show no real increase in
>strength although SSDF results will take some time.  Hiarcs 7/8 showed nothing
>but Hiacs 9 did improve over them.  Of course lower rated programs seem to have
>more room for improvement but if they are using similiar techniques of
>search/eval/pruning/time control then they will eventually hit the same wall.  I
>think some new innovative technique is required at this point.  Else all
>improvements of substantive value will only come from hardware.

I think that there is no wall and it is only some temporary failure of the
programmers to get significant progress.

Uri



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