Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 02:36:22 05/12/99
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On May 12, 1999 at 03:04:23, blass uri wrote: >branching factor is important for all the programs. >If you give programs more time then they become stronger. it is e.g. not important for any human beeing to bear a weapon. i know countries in the world where no kids have weapons, and - although they have no gun, they do not kill other kids by shooting at the others. i don't believe that following the others is a way to solve that problem. sometimes other go wrong ways. than you should not follow them. >I do not think that there are good programs that have nothing then search to >generate strength. of course they have evaluation functions. but if you put them on a slow machine, give them less memory. they suddenly are so weak... that other programs can beat them much better, because the strength of those programs relies on the hardware optimisation=search. >If you change the evaluation function of top programs(including fast searchers >like Fritz) to evaluation that count only the material on the board then you >will get a very weak program(It will have no chance even against FM's). > >Uri
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