Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 04:40:57 12/23/99
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On December 23, 1999 at 02:34:11, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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. A big step in the past was the nullmove that slowly evolved from a single and seldom used nullmove start of the 80s, to extensively used form as used by Frans Morsch against 1989. >-Tom Vincent Diepeveen
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