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Subject: Re: IBM says that they used C

Author: KarinsDad

Date: 08:26:13 01/30/99

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On January 30, 1999 at 02:28:05, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

[snip]
>
>Weights are programmable; evaluations factors are not. You
>*have to* live with factors that were chosen by hardware
>designers. Let's assume that they did not programmed king
>safety there (of course they programmed - Murray Campbell
>said that in his MS lecture, but let's live with that
>hypothesis for demonstration purposes). If so, you will be not
>able to port any program that evaluates that factor to DB
>hardware. Or you can port it, but you'll end up with a program
>that lost major component of its evaluation function (imagine
>CSTal without king safety), and don't receive some other
>factors, that can be evaluated by DB, but are not evaluated by
>your program (most programs ignores pins and overloaded pieces
>in their SEE - in hardware you can have it free). Or you can
>use *all* factors that can be evaluated by DB hardware - in that
>case you'll end up exactly with DB, but with other set of
>coefficients. DB team spent a lot of time tuning their
>coefficients, so I doubt that your new set will be better.
>
>Eugene

Got it.

Thanks Eugene.

KarinsDad



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