Author: Uri Blass
Date: 00:43:29 01/28/01
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On January 28, 2001 at 03:30:55, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On January 27, 2001 at 21:13:27, Howard Exner wrote: > >>>socrates plays very good IMO. >>>in the last move it made arround 279.000 NPS. >>> >>>will be a long night. > > >>Hopefully this will encourage Don Dailey to return to posting here on CCC. >>His past contributions here were valuable. > >i would appreciate this much. don daily is a very nice person, i had the >opportunity to meet in den haag at the aegon tournament. >we had many discussions about alternative ways in computerchess and i remember >he had a laptop with him, where we let his laptop version play against chess >system tal versions, to find out what happens and WHY moves that are unsound >can win games. > >i would like to see don posting here, like bob and all the others. >we can only learn and share computerchess with exchanging ideas and games >and positions. > >i was asked which version of socrates is playing. difficult to say. >the version seems to be not the commercial version. it seems to be an >experimental version made for the den haag AEGON tournament. > >if i remember it right this version was stolen by somebody, and suddenly >appeared in the scene. >it has no mouse support and there is a small readme file with it by don >that explains how to operate this version. and he wishes good luck for the >tournament. there are search-parameters to change in the program. > >i am using a different setting than the default. i guess the default version was >designed for playing games against humans, cause there is a switch ON called >"human algorithm". i think with this switch ON socrates plays weaker (against >computer). > >there are other switches too to change. >for me it is important that ALL kind of programs play. that the tournament >relates the best OLD programs with the best NEW programs. All kind of programs do not participate. I do not complain about it because the really old programs of 1980 have no chance. Old programs of 5 years ago can compete and have practical chance to surprise the new programs in a minority of the cases. Uri
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