Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 14:45:51 10/21/99
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On October 21, 1999 at 15:23:45, Wayne Lowrance wrote:
>On October 21, 1999 at 13:21:00, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On October 21, 1999 at 10:33:16, Peter Pilarinos wrote:
>>
>>>My personal opinion is that it would be EXTREMELY difficult to make further
>>>progress based on the present Genius program structure. I remember Richard Lang
>>>saying this in one interview that I read about him some years back. His programs
>>>are very unique in their structure. It was this type of programming tequnique
>>>that allowed the Genius programs to be so poweful on relatively slow computers.
>>>Now that the computers are so much quicker, the advantages of this type of
>>>search structure are somwhat dim. I believe that if Mr. Lang wanted to make
>>>futher noticable progress, he would have to re-write his program from scratch,
>>>using different, more contemporary methods. He is obviously a very talented man,
>>>and I am sure he could do this if he wished.
>>>
>>>Pete P
>>
>>I'm sure you are going to think that the following is very arrogant, but I
>>really think what he said is BULLSHIT.
>>
>>Lang's program are not unique in their structure. He wants you to believe so,
>>but it's not true. He is using alpha-beta, hash tables, pruning techniques,
>>static piece square tables, dynamic part in the evaluation and so on.
>>
>>What Genius misses is some modern pruning techniques that work better at higher
>>depths. Because Genius is killed by search depth, which is ironic as he was
>>killing everybody by search depth several years ago. probably also relying less
>>on static evaluation made at the root would be needed.
>>
>>The truth is that he has probably lost the will to work on Genius. What he has
>>does not need to be rewritten. He should keep almost everything, because he has
>>powerful algorithms. He just has to add several modern techniques, which are BTW
>>publicly known.
>>
>>In this case however, Genius would become a program similar to many others, with
>>just a little bit of originality.
>>
>>But who am I to pretend he is wrong... :)
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>Your post is appreciated, Your language is not !
>Wayne
Oops... What did I say?
Christophe
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