Author: Uri Blass
Date: 02:42:19 09/16/05
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On September 16, 2005 at 05:28:30, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On September 16, 2005 at 05:13:08, Heinz van Kempen wrote: > >>Now we finally know that it was a myth claiming that engines at highest level >>can only improve by a few rating points each year with a lot of work and testing >>and by adding additional knowledge. > >Why is this a myth? > >You think Fabien hasn't been working hard on his engine and testing a lot? > >-- >GCP The question if Fabien works hard is not the question. The point is that people believed that programs at the high level need hard work to improve 50 elo points in a year when Fruit improves by 100 elo in few months even from the high level of Fruit2.1 and note that Fruit WCCC still has search bugs. Fabien proved that it is possible to get something near 100 elo improvement in 2 or 3 months(the time between fruit2.1 and Fruit WCCC). If it is possible to do it in 2 or 3 months by hard work then it is clearly possible to do it in one year when you work about the program not more than average time of 2 hours per day. Note that I never believed in the theory that programs at the high level needs hard work to improve by 50 elo and my thoery was simply that the programmers that work about chess programs are not good programmers. Uri
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