Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:14:48 05/13/99
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On May 13, 1999 at 09:10:05, Torstein Hall wrote: >I think a DB chip will kill all the Fritzes, Rebels, Nimzos, Juniors and Hiarcs >of this world. What is the point in developing, or buying, something that is a >lot weaker than the "Micro Monster" :-) > >But perhaps it could be made with a programming interface, letting other >programs use it for search, and add their own evaluation functions etc.? > >Torstein This can't be done... the _hardware_ does the eval, and the last N plies of the tree search. All that could be modified would be the first few plies of the search, (and the extensions) since that part is done in software. But the "guts" of the thing will _always_ be deep blue. It can only evaluate the things that the hardware was built to do, and no more. The search and quiescence search can only behave like the chip is built with no flexibility. Evaluation weights can be changed, but new things can't be added... so no matter what you do, you end up with a 'deep blue' program... Bob
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