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Subject: Re: Voyager on ICC

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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