Author: Pete Galati
Date: 20:40:55 06/09/01
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On June 09, 2001 at 21:17:50, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On June 09, 2001 at 20:08:44, David Rasmussen wrote: > >>On June 09, 2001 at 18:07:49, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >> >>>The following finger notes can be found on ICC: >>> >>> >>> >>>Information about gerbil(C) (Last disconnected Sat Jun 09 2001 03:34): >>> >>> rating [need] win loss draw total best >>>Bullet 1427 [7] 1 0 0 1 >>>Blitz 2032 49 7 5 61 2032 (09-Jun-2001) >>> >>> 1: Gerbil >>> 2: >>> 3: A simple chess program by Bruce Moreland. >>> 4: >>> 5: First line of code written on 28-May-01. >>> >>> >>> >>>What's the scoop on this (very) new chess program? Why are you (Bruce) starting >>>from scratch? What are your aims with this program? Is this intended to be a new >>>version of TSCP or do you intend to be more ambitious? Inquiring minds want to >>>know. >> >>Bruce said in rec.games.chess.computer that Gerbil was a new educational engine >>that he was working on. That is, an engine that is supposed to be as simple and >>clear as possible for the purposes of understanding how a chess program works. >>This came up, because we where talking about that I am thinking of doing the >>same. It seems that most such programs are a compromise between simplicity and >>performance. In my educational program, if there ever is one, the important >>principles will be: >> >>1. Simplicity and good design is _always_ more important than performance. >>People could always look elsewhere for performance, whenever they understand the >>basic design. The performance critical things are the things that should be >>experimented with anyway, instead of just copied. >> >>2. Good, simple design and performance are not enemies. They emphasize >>eachother. A good design will eventually lead to fewer bugs and better >>performance. > > >As usual, anything interesting begets more questions: >1) What method of move generation is used? >2) What search algorithm is being used? >3) What type of pruning/extentions will be used? >4) Will this be a winboard engine? >5) When will it be made available for download? > >BTW, I think this is an excellent project by someone who has always been able to >give excellent explanations. I'm looking forward to downloading it. You might be interested in this thread at r.g.c.c. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&th=8e7e04173e72a3ad,25&start=0&ic=1 this seems to be where it's talked about in .computer I can't do this much reading right now, but there it is fwiw. Pete
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