Author: Uri Blass
Date: 11:32:02 02/09/05
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On February 09, 2005 at 14:29:42, Uri Blass wrote: >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 I can add that I replied his email only few hours ago and probably he has other things to do and did not check his email in these hours. Uri
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