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Subject: Re: CCT7 - Urgent call for two operators!!

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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