Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 07:30:22 04/04/01
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On April 04, 2001 at 10:17:02, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi all: >I have completed, until now, two games againts the beast, both 40 moves in 90 >minutes. And both I lost after tough fight. So what: I expected that and in fact >I expect that againts almost every top program. What I go for is to get fun, >FUN. > >Well, looking at the computer as he thought answers to my moves I realized some >curious facts. First, the incredible great jumps in his evaluation from one >second to another, from one ply to the next. I am talking of going from, say, >+.90 to 0.00. My guess is that behind that there is not just a monolitic >evaluation package of code, but a system of specific modules doing the job >according to circunstances. I have seen changes in every program when going to >deeper plies, but this changes by Gambit are a lot more deep and happens very >fast. Well if it's not a tactical fail high/fail low, then it sure is a bug if a program jumps from 0.90 to 0.00 without good reason. >The second thing that attracted my atention was its use of time. In one of the >games Gambit was thinking more than 15 minutes, probably a lot more -I did not >take the time accurately; I was, as always, doing three things at the same time, >including supping a glass of red wine and lessoning Frank Sinatra- and the >position I produced with my move was somewhat intriguing BUT not that >intriguing. It was as if an altoguether different code was putted in action to >reasses the position from scratch. > >I do not believe Christophe is going to show his secrets here just like that, >but I wonder if he could tell us a little bit of the new techniques he is >clearly using. Of course maybe I am totally wrong.... > > >fernando
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