Author: Vincent Lejeune
Date: 06:56:31 01/12/06
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On January 11, 2006 at 15:08:50, Zappa wrote: >On January 10, 2006 at 07:28:55, Gabor Szots wrote: > >>Question: Which one of Fruit, Rybka and Shredder will be strongest at their next >>non-beta release? >> >>My bet is Fruit. Here is why. >> >>Fruit made giant leaps in the past. Why should it fade now? >>Rybka hid in the dark for a long time and emerged as the greatest. But I don't >>think it still has the potential for a great improvement. Somme search tweaks >>and some more endgame knowledge will translate to more than 50 Elos. >>Shredder 9 was only moderately improved compared to Shredder 8 (if my assessment >>based on what I have read is right). And it is old. Without some new >>revolutionary ideas it simply cannot gain too much. >> >>So once again: 1. Fruit, 2. Rybka, 3. Shredder. >> >>What do yoou think? >> >>Gábor > >I'm going to go out on a limb here, but I think we will not see a lot of >improvement from chess programs in the near future. Fruit will probably get 50 >elo points from real kingsafety code, but in general my opinion is that computer >chess is in sore need of some new ideas. > >So far there have been just two big ideas in computer chess: mobility and >recursive null move pruning. IMO we have just about exhausted the potential of >those ideas. So the question is: where do we go from here? We don't know futur ideas before found them ;o) > >anthony > >anthony
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