Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 06:43:49 10/23/00
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On October 23, 2000 at 09:28:30, Robert Hyatt wrote: >I hate to throw water on your parade, but you are attempting to create a second >"urban legend" without knowing what you are talking about. GT and CSTal have >exactly _nothing_ in common. GT has larger-than-life king safety scores. That >is all. No different search paradigm or anything else. > >Let's keep this out of the world of science fiction and in the range of >programming fact. It isn't the second-coming of CSTal, with a more accurate >search. It is a program with an evaluation that is tuned differently. It is >_still_ the same "bean counter" has always been, just some of the 'beans' are >now larger than others. > >Back to reality... How good some people are informed... :-))) How do you know that gambit-tiger is the same bean counter as crafty is, only with some bigger beans :-)) Maybe i should switch the autoplayer from gandalf into crafty this evening... lets wait until it is on the market and others have to adapt. I did not say that it is the seconde coming of cstal. i said it is the ideas of chris that are partly considered again now. We have 3 programs, or maybe 4. CSTal Gandalf Gambit-Tiger maybe others will follow. we will see. of course the programmers have developed their king-attack beasts all by themselves. Chris alone in britain a few years ago... steen in denmark and christophe in guadeloupe. But they are maybe the critical mass of a reaction that will explode in the near future. of course they all have different searchers. cstal a very slow one, gandalf a little more NPS than hiarcs, and gambit-tiger with the highest NPS of all three. But in the result of that experiment, in the games, they play pretty much the same. It could also be that others, not yet known, have similar approaches... you can call it tuning. i am not worried. this will not stop development/anything anymore. call it SF, i have no problems with this. SF often is realized. sometimes (George Orwell) too soon, other times (StarTrek) not soon enough.
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