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Subject: Re: new computer chess effort

Author: Greg Lindahl

Date: 21:42:38 12/20/99

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On December 20, 1999 at 21:52:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>>There is no reason why you have to assume that you must have the move generator
>>or alpha/beta search on the FPGA. That assumption underlies Bob's claims about
>>feasability, and my complaint that there's more than one way to skin a cat.
>>
>>I would love to see a discussion about the minimum useful stuff on an FPGA, but
>>of course that depends on how your engine is written, and Bob's engine spends
>>relatively little time in eval.
>>
>>-- g
>
>
>Again, that statement is simply wrong.  50% of the time is spent in the eval.
>That is more than any other single component by a wide margin.

In my book, 50% is "relatively little time in eval", especially when I'm
comparing it to an engine which spends 90% in eval.

-- g



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