Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 07:05:55 06/21/00
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On June 21, 2000 at 09:56:53, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On June 21, 2000 at 09:20:19, Aaron Tay wrote: > >>Agreed..Crafty still has an edge..But Yace is superior to most of the >>non-commericals..now ..I think >Yace is among the top eight WinBoard engines when it comes to blitz. However, >I'm not quite convinced that it's better than Lg2000, Comet, SOS, Phalanx, >Gromit and TCB yet, even at blitz. I suppose that will be determined within the >nearby future. Why don't you convince yourself by running a 50 blitz game match on your brand new computer? I think the gap between Yace and Cmet/Phalanx is big enough at blitz for a mere 50 game match to convince you.. Lg2000 might be one of those that Yace is not much superior to. >>Yes..The current Yace018 has implemented resigning options, select citeria >>of -X evaluation over Y moves and right now it has quite a few tuning >>parimeters to play with..He's a really fast programmer.. >Yes, you really have to think fast to figure out what features you would like >implemented. Because he implements than so quickly.. >When he implements book learning and tablebases then I'll be more >than satisfied. Well I suspect even Dieter might have some problems coming up with those so quickly..That is, if we are talking about a good implementation of book learning and tbs.. >>Perhaps the Chessmaster fans here who like to experiment with testign could >>try playing with Yace..It's a new yet strong program with lots of room for >>improvement.. >Yes, you could say that Yace has a more bright future compared with Chessmaster >6000 :o). Because Chessmaster 8000 with a brand new engine is coming out? >But it appears as if a lot of people own a copy of that particular >program, so they're probably finding the testing procedure very useful. I don't >think Yace has a shortage of persons dedicated to testing it thoroughly. Testing as in tuning various parimeters and running tournaments of Yace Queen+ vers Yace ss 10 for example? I don't think so.. >Best wishes... >Mogens
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