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Subject: Re: Screamer Chess build 57 Released - soon - not downloadable yet.

Author: Richard A. Fowell

Date: 12:13:06 03/25/01

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Screamer Chess build 57 isn't available for download quite yet.

Although William submitted it to the InfoMac archives, it will take a few
days until it is actually downloadable from there,
since the volunteer archivists screen and virus check submissions by hand.

You can check for its downloadability by using this link:

http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/NewSearch?key=chess

which will list the InfoMac Macintosh chess software archive holdings,
most recent first.

Richard A. Fowell




On March 25, 2001 at 12:07:01, William Bryant wrote:

>I'v just released Screamer, build 57.
>
>Screamer is a freeware Macintosh chess engine that is fully compatable with the
>Exachess chess database.  It has full opening book and EGTB support.
>
>Much of the changes came from improvements as I work on Ad_Hoc (a bitboard
>chess engine in development).  I suspect the next release to be a MacOX binary
>(that can run under OS 8.6 and later using CarbonLib).
>
>This is from the _Read_Me_First_ file.
>
>What's New - build 57
>    Screamer has a new log option, "Log to PGN File".
>        This option allows all games played to be send to a file in PGN
>        format.
>        The PGN file can be used a a game database and directly inported
>        into Exachess or any chess database program.
>
>What's Better
>    Rewrote the evaluation function.
>    This increases Screamer's score on test suites as follows:
>                        Correct     ELO      USCF Rating
>          CCR           19 / 25     2350     2530
>          LCT II        23 / 35     2415     2595
>          BT2630        23 / 30     2376     2556
>          Average:                  2380     2560
>
>          WAC           292/300 @ 1 minute
>
>	Note:  This is on my G3 Tower 266mhz (66mhz system bus).
>
>What's Fixed
>    A number of minor bug fixes were made.
>
>I have sent this to MacGifts so it should appear on the InfoMac archive soon.
>
>William
>wbryant@ix.netcom.com
>
>The web page has also been updated:
>http://pweb.netcom.com/~wbryant/screamer.html



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