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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