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Subject: Re: Paris WMCCC - were programs better than in Jakarta (1996)?

Author: Chris Whittington

Date: 12:27:43 11/13/97

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On November 13, 1997 at 15:04:18, Chris Carson wrote:

>On November 13, 1997 at 14:31:50, Chris Whittington wrote:
>
>>
>>On November 13, 1997 at 14:26:41, Chris Carson wrote:
>>
>>>This is to much fun!
>>>
>>>Another Fast team (nps > 4K, willing to talk about it)
>>>
>>>1. Crafty  (good program, author will comment)
>>>2. Ferrett (good program, author will comment)
>>>3. Dark Thought  (good program, author has published)
>>
>>I'm not sure that Rebel will want to be classified as fast....
>>
>>>4. Rebel 9  (good program, author will commment)
>>>
>>>Slow team (nps < 4K, willing to talk about it)
>>>
>>>1. CSTal (good program, author will comment)
>>
>>Where are you going to get any programs slower than this ?
>>
>>Chris Whittington
>>
>
>Couple of issues for classification:
>
>   1.  What is slow?  ( < 15K on P6-200)
>   2.  What is fast?  ( > 15K on P6-200)
>   2.  What is knowledge? (book, book lrn, positional learning,
>                          evaluation, hash tables, endgame tablebases,
>                          style)
>
>   I think you are more qualified to answer than I am.

Best would be an open debate between Moritz and Thorsten about who is
classified as what ........    .......

> I'm not
>sure there are many "slow" programs.  Is Diep a slow program?

Getting me and Droop in the same room, let alone the same team would be
a major acheivement :)

>Hiarcs was mentioned, but I do not know if it would meet any
>defined criteria for mostly knowledge.  Any thoughts?

Only one. We all hate each other. Getting us to cooperate in teams could
be tricky :)

>
>   I also agree with you that Ed could better classify Rebel
>than I could.  Good program no matter how it is classified.
>
>   I also think that Crafty has quite a bit of knowledge already
>programmed in.  Just my opinion.  :)

Everybody is entitled to their opinion

Chris Whittington


>
>>>2. ???
>>>
>>>Best Regards,
>>>Chris Carson



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