Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 02:44:26 12/25/97
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On December 25, 1997 at 03:48:05, Christophe Theron wrote: > >On December 23, 1997 at 17:44:08, Thorsten Czub wrote: > >>>Think that this board was a mistake. >> >>I don't think so. >>No Tueschen, no KK-newby-advises and instead Don and Amir and and and >>many others. Thats more than you could expect. > >This board is interesting. Things of interest happens here, and real >computer chess stuffs are discussed. > >The only bad thing is that people always feel the need to say something, >even if they have nothing to say. For example: I have nothing special to >say about journalism, but with this sentence I just managed to say it! >And the problem is that this thread could quickly become: "what to do if >you have nothing special to say today about journalism". This thread >could well continue until year 2000, and become 90% of the postings on >CCC. > >So I just go back to computer chess and, yes, I saw Junior in Paris. One >day, it was doing a kind of self-play. I suppose Amir was testing the K6 >computer. The rate of play was roughly 1s/move. I was very surprised to >see very long lines on the screen and stood there for a while. At 1 sec per move self-play how do any lines stay for a 'while' ? >In only >1s Junior was able to compute 10 or 12 plies lines. And the last moves >usually were not captures. Holding the hash table over from the previous, and then prinitng the line by walking the hash table ? Gets a build up of depth to the lines from the previous searches ...... ? Chris Whittington > >I don't like to bring unverified news, so maybe Amir could confirm what >I say. I often read postings from him on CCC, so he's likely to read >this tomorrow! > >Anyway, I was impressed by Junior's depth. As a chess programmer I would >like to achieve something like that. My program, Chess Tiger, is fast >and usually reaches ply 8-9 in blitz on a P200. But Junior's algorithm >is smarter. The only program I know with a similar behaviour is >Genius... > > > Christophe
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