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Subject: Re: About Terra

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 14:02:58 01/26/99

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On January 26, 1999 at 13:10:50, Will Singleton wrote:

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>Very interesting!  Since it's winboard-compatible, you must run it against the
>other engines.  How does it do?
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>Will

Encouraging but not overwhelming!
WinBoard is one of the reasons I might change my mind about going public.
It learned me how I had underestimated the importance of compteition...

Terra has played against most of the available freeware mostly short games (10
minutes or 30 minutes) played overnight. I don't have the patiense to play a lot
of long games waiting for programming time.
Allmost all of the matches has been played on the same machine. That means that
pondering is not used. Furthermore the hash table size is smaller than ideal
conditions. The opening books used are quiet small and no program have used end
game table bases.
Therefore the conditions are not really ideal and some programs are hurted more
than others from this but I don't care. That's not the point with my testing. I
don't care if Phalanx is stronger than Little Goliath or vice versa. I'm just
trying to develop my own program...:-)

Under these conditions I would rate my program somewhere in between Crafty and
Little Goliath. My favourite opponent is Comet because it is so even. I have a
feeling that Comet is most hurted from these game conditions and L. Goliath is
earning from it. Just a hunch...

//Peter



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