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Subject: Re: what do we know about zappa

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 17:03:40 12/12/05

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On December 12, 2005 at 19:36:41, Zappa wrote:

>On December 12, 2005 at 16:15:13, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote:
>
>>Here is the webpage: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/acozzie2/www/zappa/
>>
>>Doesn't the more advanced zappa achieve its strength by running on multiple
>>processors? I still think rybka and fruit will be better on a single processor,
>>but we will see
>
>What we know about Zappa:
>
>Zappa is written by a modest genius by the name of Anthony Cozzie.  He is also
>good looking and athletic, and women everywhere melt at the sound of his name.
>
>He prefers working on parallel algorithms to forward pruning methods.
>
>Zappa is really just a hobby for him - his true interests are more along the
>lines of computer science and philosophy - except that he hates losing so
>somehow his engine got stronger.
>
>Many people at CCC like talking about how strong Zappa would be under X
>conditions despite having no data.
>
>What we don't know:
>
>Exactly how strong Zappa is.  Honestly I don't know myself, especially because
>I'm really tweaking things around right now.

and also because you never gave Zappa2.x for testers that are going to give you
results against opponents.

Latest public version Zappa1.1 x64 fighting for third place in WBEC with the
following opponents
1)prodeo1.1
2)Gandalf6.01
3)Thinker4.0xb64
4)Pharaon3.3

Uri



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