Author: Will Singleton
Date: 09:35:53 12/31/98
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On December 31, 1998 at 06:41:33, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >On December 30, 1998 at 20:57:58, Will Singleton wrote: > >>Could you tell us a bit about the development of this program? Others probably >>know, but I'm in the dark. All I know is that it matched my program twice, and >>blew me off the board in both games -- more so than the normal loss I get from >>other strong progs. >> >>Will > > >Well, I am not really eminently adequate for this, but here goes: Voyager is a >true 32-bit program that can use WB as its front end and can also fit in the >Nimzo / Fritz 32 GUI. Search: PVS, null-move, singular extensions, hash up to >140MB, dynamic piece square tables, forward pruning, quiescence search, King >attack heuristics, null-move pruning, etc. Its endgame knowledge is very varied >and rather deep -- no tablebase support for the moment. Less than one year >old... And, of course, there are quite a few things to do... > >BTW, I do not remember Voyager matching your program (Amateur?) on ICC, was it >perhaps on FICS where its handle is almost the same (TheMagusX)? > >Regards, >Djordje It was on ICC, about a week ago, and when it had played only a couple games. In fact, it didn't yet have a (C), and the fi notes didn't say what prog it was. I thought it was some GM. Will
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