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Subject: Re: slow searchers against fast searchers

Author: blass uri

Date: 04:34:43 01/02/00

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On January 02, 2000 at 06:29:43, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:


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>>The definition of knowledge is not clear to me.
>>I often find that fast searchers have better positional understanding.
>
>I am reading here the biggest crap out of history.

I agree that you can get a better positional understanding by doing a slower
searcher but it does not imply that practically slower searchers have better
positional understanding.

I saw cases when Hiarcs and fritz "believed" that they were better and fritz was
right in the evaluation of the position not because it saw 1 or 2 plies more.

Here are some possible reasons why fast searchers have often better positional
understanding.

1)The programmers of the slow searchers do not use the right parameters in their
program.

2)The programmers of the slow searchers do not know what to evaluate and they
evaluate many unimportant things instead of small number of important things.

3)The slow searchers are slow because the programmers of them did not know how
to do the same thing faster.

Uri



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