Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 10:14:21 04/13/04
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On April 12, 2004 at 23:07:46, Christophe Theron wrote: >On April 12, 2004 at 19:51:29, Tom Likens wrote: > >>I was thinking about this *exact* problem on the way home from work today. >>The only solution I could come up with was to add more computers and thus >>attack the problem in parallel. I currently have three computers I can >>dedicate to running various test matches, You're lucky, Tom. I only have a single computer for testing, and it is used for too many other tasks, and I cannot dedicate it to testing only. :-( In theory I could also run test matches on my private computer, an old and slow Macintosh PowerBook. But unfortunately the PowerBook cannot do processor-intensive work for a long period of time without running its fan at the highest level, which makes it sound like a vacuum cleaner. Besides, there are not many engines to test against. >>if I could validate an idea in >>roughly two days then this problem wouldn't be so bad. A week, as both you >>and Tord point out, is difficult. Adding more CPUs to the problem would >>make this possible, but it might also turn me into a bachelor again!! >> >>As I mentioned previously, testing is my primary focus for the next few weeks. >>If I come up with anything interesting I'll share it (not being commercial >>does have a few advantages). Also don't hesitate to *not* share anything >>since you make your living at this I can appreciate your position. If >>someone asked me to design an integrated circuit for free, I might be >>reluctant to do so (especially, if it resulted in my not being able to design >>one for a paycheck in the future). >> >>regards, >>--tom > > > >I consider that I *do* contribute to computer chess programming. Not by >providing code, but by providing advices. > >I'm not doing what Bob does. Bob provides excellent advices on code, or code >structure. > >I provide more general, or philosophical, advices. They do not cover the same >areas as advices provided by other people. Some of them took me years to come up >with, so from my point of view they are valuable, maybe more than code. Absolutely. I appreciate your advice at least as much as Bob's, and I try to read everything you post on this forum. Tord
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