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Subject: Re: Thanks for extracting this!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:46:22 01/03/06

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On January 03, 2006 at 06:30:51, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On January 02, 2006 at 18:29:31, Otello Gnaramori wrote:
>
>>On January 02, 2006 at 15:11:08, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>In my eyes what rybka doing is very basic. Like fruit's eval + simple kingsafety
>>>+ very little more than that, but real well tuned.
>>>
>>>In my definition that is not much. That's real simple stuff.
>>
>>
>>I don't think it is so simple...I strongly suspect that Rybka has a special
>>evaluation fuction with a _lot_ of knowledge inside...the tuning isn't enough to
>>explain that brilliant performances.
>>I tend to agree with Uri.
>
>Wouldn't you have thought the same thing about Fruit if you had never seen the
>source?
>
>--
>GCP

I think that fruit also has a lot of knowledge inside of it relative to weaker
programs.

Weaker programs may have bigger evaluation but bigger evaluation is not chess
knowledge.

Uri



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