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Subject: Re: New search developments

Author: Alessandro Damiani

Date: 10:31:37 09/10/00

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On September 10, 2000 at 04:52:07, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On September 09, 2000 at 17:12:08, walter irvin wrote:
>
>>can any programmer here fore see anything that might make a major diff in
>>computer elo???? im not talking about getting 4 elo point if we double the hash
>>size or some non sense .
>>
>>if not then maybe we have went as far as we can go in the current direction????
>>maybe a new direction would help ???????????????????????????????? its fine to
>>make copies of crafty and tweek it here and there and say oh im a big programmer
>>.but whats needed is for some new ideas , some one not afraid to fail or try
>>something people say wont work .
>>
>>just a sugestion
>
>I'd say it'd be interesting to experiment with some of the recent
>search developments. Especially with conspiracy numbers some great
>progress has been made (CC2NS for example), but as far as I know,
>nearly no-one is using them.
>
>--
>GCP

The new version of Fortress will be based on Alpha-Beta Conspiracy Number search
(ABC). It will be out end of October or in November.

I did some experiments with ABC (quick and dirty, since I don't much time now)
and the results are very interesting. :)

Alessandro



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