Author: David Wilke
Date: 09:52:12 01/20/01
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On January 20, 2001 at 10:13:44, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >My engine, "Gaviota" is available to be dowloaded at > >http://www.msu.edu/~ballicor/gav > >(this would be version 0.1) > >It was written in ANSI C and compiled with djgpp. Later I found out that >it is supposed to give problems with winboard but I had no problems with >that compiler. > >This is a starting point. The engine is still weak but much stronger >than I expected at this stage. I estimate is around Elo 2000 in an >AMD K6-2 400 mhz. >In FICS oscillates between 2000-2050. It had played around 40 games >there 5 0 or 3 3. >It is certainly weaker than Amyan (+1 -2 =1) by probably 100-150 points. >it is stronger than TSCP (in a match at 10 0 it was (+4 -1 =3). >In FICS looked a bit stronger than Sjeng version. >I was difficult to compare it to noonian. Lost several games the other day >but yesterday went (+4 -0 =0) in FICS. >Of course these are very few games bu just give an idea. I think that >~2000 could be a good estimation. Maybe 1900? > >It plays weird. There are certain positions that handle reasonably well, but in >others is terrible. It seems that gaviota feels more comfortable in closed >positions. > >It has no book, but it creates a 1mb file to learn bad positions (pos.bin) >In this way it does not repeat the same game over and over. It may play >bad openings, but improves. >It has 8 mb Hash table. >I believe that it is running stable. Let me know if there is a problem >using it with Winboard (I have been using 4.1). I does not support >"move now" but you can play normally with any time control and also matches >since supports "new". It does not support "edit". >It does not ponder. >Is this the first Argentinian Winboard Engine? > >Regards, >Migue Under what account did you play under on FICS?
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