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Subject: Re: Any info about SearcherX?

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 03:54:32 05/28/01

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On May 28, 2001 at 06:30:20, Frank Phillips wrote:

>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.

Hi Frank,

I think that you are right, taking into account your  - typical British (?) -
understatements.
No doubt that searcher can compete with the best amateurs ! Based on our games
on chess.net, I had already known this before CCT3. Not really a surprise to me
that you did reasonably well there.
Congrats to your highly successful progress !

Regards, Uli


>
>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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