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Subject: Re: new computer chess effort

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:41:23 12/21/99

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On December 21, 1999 at 15:59:10, Amir Ban wrote:
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>Not very much. Hiarcs is a successful program, so I think its author discovered
>that it's possible to do high quality evaluation without spending tons of CPU on
>it. I think every top engine has found elaborate and ingenious schemes to do
>that. To say that good evaluation is one that takes 90% processor time is not to
>understand what computer chess programming is all about.
>
>Hiarcs appears to be an engine with special search techniques, and I guess
>that's were it spends much time.

Mark Uniacke is a nice guy.  I bet he'd tell us if we asked him.




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