Author: Pete Galati
Date: 21:17:32 08/25/00
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On August 25, 2000 at 23:15:44, Christophe Theron wrote: >On August 25, 2000 at 15:15:52, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On August 25, 2000 at 15:05:17, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>>On August 25, 2000 at 15:00:51, Mark Loftus wrote: >>> >>>>I think ZChess and SOS made a good showing in this tournament, very good for the >>>>amateurs playing with the big boys. I had never heard of Paque Expert before, I >>>>think that must be an amateur. I think a recent version of Little Goliath 2000 >>>>would have been very competitive here, obviously I was a little disappointed in >>>>Crafty but I think Bob will have a better book worked out for the next time. >>>>Does anyone know the versions of the programs that played in this WMCCC? >>>> >>>>Mark >>> >>> >>> >>>The version of Chess Tiger playing in the WMCCC 2000 is 12.9 >>> >>>It will be further improved before we release it as the commercial engine >>>"Rebel-Tiger II". >>> >>> >>> Christophe >> >>12.9? When you compete in a tournament like WMCCC, are you useing a Dos Tiger? >> >>Pete > > >Yes. We had to do that as the DLL interface has changed and so we could not use >the graphical interface without first adapting it. > >The result is that we have used a version of Tiger that is slightly slower as >the one that runs under the Windows interface. I'm using an old DOS GCC (2.7.2), >and it produces slightly slower code than Visual C and the new GCC, which is now >optimized for Pentium-class processors. > >I have focused so much in improving the engine that I did not even took the time >to install the new GCC compiler! :) I never took the time to find out what they changed with it. It probably wouldn't mean anything to me if I found out anyhow. It probably wasn't a problem using the old version. > >In practice the difference in speed does not matter much in such a tournament. >It must be only 5-10% slower. > > > > Christophe Tiger did very well. I don't think being slightly slower hurt you really. So you loose a search depth here and there, but I think allot of the time the next search depth comes up with the same move anyhow. Pete
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