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Subject: Re: Crafty's new or old?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 19:49:25 02/11/00

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On February 11, 2000 at 19:48:09, Dann Corbit wrote:

>You can't tell how strong a program is by counting how many nodes it examines.
>Turn off NULL move and it will search more nodes with less effect, for instance.
> Remove all positional checking and it will search even more nodes.  By a
>judicious removal of tests, you could probably double the node counts and halve
>the playing strength.
>
>The proof of the pudding is in the eating.  Play a 500 game match between two
>versions and tell us how it turns out.  Use separate machines, and turn
>pondering on.

While this is all correct, it seems to have very little to do with the original
post.

-Tom



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