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Subject: Re: new computer chess effort

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:04:41 12/21/99

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On December 21, 1999 at 17:41:23, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On December 21, 1999 at 15:59:10, Amir Ban wrote:
>[snip]
>>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.

Tell you what?  what %age of time in eval?  Or what he is doing?  :)

percentage maybe.  I still would guess 50% or less.



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