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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