Author: Uri Blass
Date: 11:29:42 02/09/05
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On February 09, 2005 at 14:25:43, enrico carrisco wrote: >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. I already contacted him. I wait for his reply and I test playing on ICC because my assumption is now that I will probably play inspite of the fact that I still got no response from him. Uri
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