Author: Slater Wold
Date: 13:36:43 02/06/04
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On February 06, 2004 at 16:26:45, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >On February 06, 2004 at 16:05:52, Slater Wold wrote: > >>On February 06, 2004 at 13:23:08, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >> >>>On February 06, 2004 at 13:19:50, Russell Reagan wrote: >>> >>>>On February 06, 2004 at 12:12:18, Slater Wold wrote: >>>> >>>>>Well of course. If you could solve this, you could probably solve chess. >>>>> >>>>>When you do any kind of pruning, it's a trade off. That it will help in more >>>>>cases than it will hurt. >>>>> >>>>>I don't do any kind of pruning or null-move, YET, because of this. I want to >>>>>build my engine around how it evaluates positions, not around what it will never >>>>>see. (To explain better, I want a solid engine, with a good search & eval, and >>>>>doing the things I want/need, and THEN I will try things to speed it up such as >>>>>reductions & null-move, etc.) >>>> >>>>Hi Slate, >>>> >>>>I didn't know you had a program until just recently. How long have you been >>>>working on your program? How is it coming along? Tell us some about it. What >>>>language you're using, whether or not you chose one of the popular board >>>>representations, or whatever. And good luck! >>> >>>This is what happens when you operate a chess program in a tournament. Now that >>>he has been infected by the chess programming virus, it is all over for poor >>>Slate . . . . >>> >>>anthony >> >>You would be correct. ;) >> >>And since your engine appears to be so good, I'll be e-mailing you question >>after question! Don't worry, I wrote the verizon address down. :D > >I've been sorta surprised that no one has noticed my huge hardware advantage at >CCT. Bob and I were the only ones running 64-bit opterons, he just had more of >them :) Zappa gets 800 KN/s on my opteron, in comparison to maybe 450 KN/s on a >2.4G P4. Now if I can just find a good compiler (have to look into this >pathscale thing) . . . . > >anthony That's not a huge HW advatange over an Athlon XP running at 2.5Ghz (HIARCS), or a G5. A quad is a 'huge' advantage. You only had a slight advantage. :) I will be doing all my work on my FX51. I guess by the time everyone at this forum gets a 64-bit CPU, it'll be ready for release. :D
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