Author: Uri Blass
Date: 13:47:01 02/09/05
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On February 09, 2005 at 16:19:15, enrico carrisco wrote: >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. No It is not smp I also have no dual CPU machine. Uri
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