Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 23:34:11 12/22/99
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On December 23, 1999 at 01:05:45, Paulo Soares wrote: >In your opinion: >1) Which the largest chess software evolution in the past? >2) Which will be the largest chess software evolution in the next years? > >In my opinion: >1) Hastables. >2) I don't know, perhaps Nalimov's tablebases 32 pieces (only a joke). > >A happy Christmas for everybody!!! > >Paulo Soares, from Brazil. Hash tables have been used almost since the beginning of computer chess and they don't provide a stunning performance increase. I think the most significant moment in computer chess (since the "sport" was invented) is when the CHESS team realized that they could do a full width search in the same time it took everybody else to do their selective searches. That took us out of the computer chess "dark ages" and it's why we have the incredibly strong programs that we do. The next big leap might be a way to improve evaluation functions intelligently, so we won't have to use the hacked-together rules of thumb that we rely on today. -Tom
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