Author: Hristo
Date: 18:49:31 04/05/99
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On April 05, 1999 at 21:01:23, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. Perfect. I would love to see(and understand) this function! This might be enough for me to pass-up the Pyramids trip! :) This is almost like in a chat-room. Hristo
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