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Subject: Re: Playing strength of simple eval programs?

Author: William H Rogers

Date: 09:43:29 03/01/00

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On March 01, 2000 at 11:19:56, Kim Roper Jensen wrote:

>I just wondered about what is the strength of a simple computer chess program,
>by simple i mean that you can have all the 'works' regarding seaching techniques
>, null move, razoring, hash tables etc. But the only evaluation routine is count
>of material .
>
>My own assumption is that on 'low' searches ( between 1 to 10 plys, or short
>time controls ) the programs will have little playing strength, but what about
>longer time controls ?? I have the idea that the speed benefit ( no time
>consuming eval. ) will give the program, deeper plys so on pure tactical reasons
>it will not play 'bad' chess ( meaning some really bad positional move )
>
>Thank you
>
>Kim Roper

Some of the earlier programs that I had used a very limited eval, mostly
material and they were only rated between 600 - 1000 pts. But keep in mind that
they did contain some other stuff in there too.
Bill




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