Author: Pete Galati
Date: 17:05:15 01/23/01
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On January 23, 2001 at 19:03:00, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 23, 2001 at 18:31:02, Pete Galati wrote: >[snip] >>This is probably an old news type of question, but is P.Conners available >>anywhere? > >My guess is that it weighs a few thousand pounds. Here are Ulf Lorenz's papers: >http://www.uni-paderborn.de/cs/ag-monien/PERSONAL/FLULO/publications.html > >Here is his computer chess page: >http://www.uni-paderborn.de/cs/chess/chesshome/index.html > >Here is a rough description: >http://www.uni-paderborn.de/StaffWeb/flulo/conny.html > >And the blurb from IPCCC: >"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." Thanks, I might have lost too much muscle weight in the last ten years to lift it. Pete
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