Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:26:18 05/04/01
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On May 04, 2001 at 06:20:49, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>On May 03, 2001 at 21:05:25, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>>>I'm working on a special project right now that I think will surprise a lot
>>>>of people. {CF:B}
>>>>[snip]
>>>
>>>Ok, tell me! ;) ... now you've got me all curious :(
>>
>>You'll find out soon. The only clue you may recieve is:
>>{CF:B}
>>which is -- of course -- completely useless.
>
>My guess would be that you are working on some kind of parallel
>program constructed of a search driver that issues positions to
>a whole bunch of crafties (or other EPD enabled ones) running over
>a network. It will make heavy use of all the Gigabytes of EPD
>data that you must have sitting over there.
Actually, your guess is fairly accurate for my chess program (bean-counter)
which pretty much does all of what you say. Unfortunately, it will probably be
two years before it is ready. It is a parallel model and does use gigabytes of
EPD. It also has a permanent hash table (which eventually will be terabytes in
size) and some other really weird behaviors. Obviously, my hash table will be
very unlike most that you will encounter both in methods and operation.
However, that has nothing to do with {CF:B} which is just me egging-on another
programming star into doing way too much work on his chess program.
>That's a wild guess of course.
>
>I've always wondered what you were _really_ up to.
>
>From what I can gather you are a mathematician and a very skilled
>programmer. You have been maintainer of the comp.lang.c FAQ, which
>indicates you must have loads of programming experience.
>
>You are very interested in chess software and have a huge collection
>of programs and data. You have been in contact with the Deep Thought
>people and even got them to do analysis for you.
>
>Yet...I can't remember having seen any chess related software from
>you. You must be up to something. I don't think you're trying to
>make a program of your own because you don't seem to understand much
>about tree search issues. So if you build anything that plays it
>will most likely reuse other software.
>
>Of course, all of this is wild speculation. I don't know _what_
>you're up to, but it'd better be interesting or you will pay
>deerly for making us so curious for nothing :)
Even so, you're just going to have to wait.
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