Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:59:57 02/09/05
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On February 08, 2005 at 21:50:24, enrico carrisco wrote: >On February 08, 2005 at 21:36:25, Lance Perkins wrote: > >>Thanks Enrico. >> >>I basically don't have a working computer at home now. I'm getting a new one >>which will arrive on Feb 24. >> >>I'm staying a little later at work these past days if I need to do some personal >> items that require a PC (like posting here). >> >>I'll send you the latest Thinker files. I hope its not much of a disappointment >>to you that Thinker does not do SMP. >> >>Thanks again... >>Lance > >Not at all Lance. Had I read Peter's original message correctly, I wouldn't >have hesitated in any choices due to unfamilarity. :) I read "Tinker" and not >"Thinker." I do not know anything of Tinker and little of Movei, so I was just >generally offering the hardware. > >Thinker is one of my favorite amateur engines along with Fruit, SmartThink and >DanChess. It will be an honor to operate Thinker in CCT7. I'll move to email >for further discussions, of course. > >-elc. You are right that thinker is today more important than movei. I hope the situation will be different in the future. Movei has big potential for improvement considering what it does not do today. some of movei's disadvantages relative to top programs: 1)Not using hash for pruning. 2)Not having special function to generate captures and generating all moves only to find captures 3)Not having special knowledge about endgames that a lot of programs have. 4)stupid mobility evaluation that consider only number of moves. 5)not using iid Uri
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