Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 09:35:28 11/08/99
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On November 08, 1999 at 11:11:35, Bas Hamstra wrote: >And what about The King? An extremely tactical genius, while NPS is only a >fraction of Fritz. I would definitely categorize The King as slow & smart. My program is "fast". I don't know how the "slow" programs work. If they are doing a lot of tactical work in the eval function rather than in search, I don't know why this makes them "smart". Example: Let's say I take my quiescent search, call it "eval", and count every entry into that function as one node. The node rate of my program would probably drop by something like 50%. This doesn't make it any "smarter", but perhaps some would say it was? I could make a special full-width search that does the last several plies, call that "eval", and suddenly I'm slower than Hiarcs. What are the "slow" programs doing? Are they statically evaluating features, or are they trying to resolve tactics? If they are doing the latter, this distinction between slow and fast may be a moot distinction, much like comparing a two year old kid with a 48 month-old kid. The second one is not any older. bruce
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