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Subject: Re: Beowulf v1.9 Released

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 22:22:11 02/06/02

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On February 06, 2002 at 13:25:15, Colin Frayn wrote:

>The latest version of Beowulf is now available on my web site. Get it while it's
>hot!
>
>http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~cmf/chess/beowulf.html
>
>Lots of improvements (too numerous to mention) but most importantly;
>
>(1) Fixed a few *very* bad bugs in the passed-pawn code
>(2) Improved strategic handling of pawns and bishops
>(3) Altered hash-table storage to make much more space
>(4) Tidied up a few bits of code
>(5) Added in a decent 64-Bit freeware random number generator
>(6) Fixed the PV printing so that Beo now prints in PGN format
>
>This version is pretty strong at long time controls, but is still rather weak at
>short time controls. On my machine (Athlon 1.33GHz) I'm getting about 25% of the
>points in matches against Crafty at 20 minutes or more.
>
>No doubt I've got something wrong so please notify me quickly if I've screwed up
>with the zip files. I normally do ;)
>
>The next version (2.0) will include pondering and proper winboard analysis
>support, if I can find the time ;)
>
>Cheers,
>Col

Does it still hang around using the cpu after closing winboard?

Will



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