Author: James T. Walker
Date: 17:43:34 01/01/05
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On January 01, 2005 at 14:29:53, Uri Blass wrote: >On January 01, 2005 at 11:26:19, James T. Walker wrote: > ><snipped> >>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 Well Uri, you may be right but in my opinion the wall has been here for 2 years now and only time will tell if you are correct. Jim
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