Author: enrico carrisco
Date: 11:25:43 02/09/05
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On February 09, 2005 at 06:59:57, Uri Blass wrote: >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 Woah -- Slow down Uri. Every program has areas of needed improvement, but by no means did my post suggest Thinker is more important than Movei. I was only speaking of which I was familiar with (as I've installed and played with Thinker 4.5 and 4.6 in the past.) There are a number of people who will be disappointed if movei does not play in this tournament -- myself included. Please contact Peter Berger and work out the details. I have other available and fast systems here that are used for Hiarcs testing, but I don't think operating two programs in the tournament is view a favorable situation by most (but I am willing to do so if there's no other option.) -elc.
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