Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:01:23 04/05/99
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On April 05, 1999 at 20:55:03, Hristo wrote: [snip] >Dann, what if the eval function(s) is pure software?! >I do not know enough about their approach! >If it is usefull to people and they(IBM, Hsu) felt like it(!) the code could be >released. Mind you, I do not think they have an obligation to do so! Even in such a case, I think it would be useless without their hardware. The kind of planning you do when you have 200M NPS at your disposal is clearly going to be different than when you have 200K NPS. On the other hand, I suspect also that the great chess players assembled may have combined with the tremendous mathematicians to produce an eval *formula* that is superb. If you read the IBM fellows list, it is like a who's who of mathematics. I don't know how much energy they threw at it, but if they wanted to they could have created a near perfect eval function.
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