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Subject: Re: Strongest commercial computerchess in the world?

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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