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Subject: Re: Any info about SearcherX?

Author: Frank Phillips

Date: 03:30:20 05/28/01

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On May 28, 2001 at 05:42:57, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On May 28, 2001 at 04:34:21, Volker Richey wrote:
>
>>On May 28, 2001 at 03:11:47, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>Very good 4th place in CCT3! I have never heard about this program, is it a
>>>new star?
>>>
>>>Jouni
>>
>>
>>may be an undercover Tiger ;)
>
>I did some checking up and the author started on the program at the
>end of 1998, at which point he did not know anything about chess
>programming or game tree search.
>
>That makes the program 2.5 years old. A few months ago the author
>stated it certainly was not up to the level of other top programs
>yet, hence it may just have been lucky. An 8 round swiss says
>something, but not all.
>
>Considering that the program is very comparable to Crafty in
>structure, there is a fair amount of 'lending' that can happen,
>which improves progress greatly of course.
>
>That statement which he made during the tournament, that his program
>had been in development for 4 years is appearantly a lie.
>
>--
>GCP


Gian

I would not be human if I did not take exception this.  I posted my day 2 diary
before reading this post.

Yes my program is comparable to Crafty in structure - and Marsland's anatomy of
a chess program description and tscp.  Many _ideas_ are taken from Crafty.  And
from other publications (eg Dark Thought). And from here.  But _my_
implementation and interpretation.  No other amatuers do this!

Look at the fics/icc/chess.net rating.  It is a class below commercials and
crafty.  That is what my statement of its strength was based on.  And from
winboard games against CM8000, Crafty, Comet etc.  I still believe it is
reasonably.

Fours years is about correct.  I could not even do C when I started. Before some
attempts at programming recursive type games (Kalah and connect4, x0x) for BCC
micro in basic, decades ago.

Frank









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