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Subject: Re: P.conners is leading with 4 out of 5

Author: Bas Hamstra

Date: 01:42:10 07/11/00

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Thanks for the interesting info. Is there a website?

Bas.

On July 10, 2000 at 16:37:09, Pierre Bourget wrote:

>Yes great performance by P. ConNers in this tournament , beating Dautov (2606)
>today .I remember that it score 4.5/7 at Paderborn earlier this year.This is a
>brief description i found but don't know if it is still valid as for hardware
>equipment:
>
>P.ConNerS
>P.ConNerS stands for 'Parallel Controlled Conspiracy Number Search'. It has been
>written by Ulf Lorenz, who is a member of Prof. Dr. Burkhard Monien's research
>group at the University of Paderborn. U. Lorenz mainly works on the research
>fields of domain independent selective search in game trees, and on the field of
>efficient parallel algorithms for optimization problems. P.ConNerS uses a
>variant of the so called 'Controlled Conspiracy Number Search' algorithm. As a
>result it examines highly selective and irregular game trees. Evaluations are
>done by the help of depth 2 alphabeta searches. When it runs on a parallel
>machine with 60 Pentium 300 MHz processors, P.ConNerS reaches a rate of about
>1.2 million nodes per second. In February 1999 it won the 8th International
>Paderborn Computer Chess Championship.
>
>Pierre



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