Author: Uri Blass
Date: 13:59:25 02/06/04
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On February 06, 2004 at 16:36:43, Slater Wold wrote: >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 completely agree advantage that is less than 2:1 cannot be described as huge when Crafty has bigger advantage than 2:1 relative to zappa Uri
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