Author: enrico carrisco
Date: 13:19:15 02/09/05
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On February 09, 2005 at 14:32:02, Uri Blass wrote: >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 One way or another Movei will play in CCT7. :) BTW, Uri, is Movei SMP capable? I thought that you had a dual CPU machine in the past, but I could be wrong. -elc.
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