Author: Maurizio Monge
Date: 14:07:20 12/28/05
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> >So bringing it back to chess engines.....What distinguishes the playing quality >of one engine from another? Can we apply what we have found with humans (e.g., >it is differences in quality of knowledge)? >Or is computer chess so different as to make any comparison irrelevant? > >best >joseph I have always been thinking that, increasing the time control, the best programs are going to be those which use better algorithms in the search function, ie achieve a smaller branching factor (with the same correctness). On the other side, for lightings it becomes more important the code optimization, because it allows the program to search deeper. I expect that a highly optimized program written in assembler that uses a simple search function will dominate in lighting, but in very long time controls it may lose agaist a slow program written in java (but with a more elaborated search function that "cuts" the search tree more intelligently). BTW, I don't know how chess knowledge relates to time control wrt the engine speed, ie is putting a lot of chess knowledge in the evaluation (and slowing the program) going to change the strenght relatively to the time control? Maybe some chess programmer more expert than me will answer :) Ciao Maurizio
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