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Subject: Re: Tao at ICC

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 23:47:27 01/17/02

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On January 17, 2002 at 11:37:49, Bas Hamstra wrote:

>On January 17, 2002 at 11:19:40, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On January 17, 2002 at 11:18:05, Bas Hamstra wrote:
>>
>>>Played Leila/Crafty/Yaces/Tigers/Fritz/Hossa 15/0 and 30/0 at ICC:
>>>
>>>statistics for TaoYin(C)         On for:    0     Idle:    0
>>>
>>>          rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
>>>Standard    2534         12     5     3    20   2534 (17-Jan-2002)
>>>
>>> 1: Chess program Tao 5.00
>>> 2: Athlon 1.4
>>> 3: Bas Hamstra (bas.hamstra@wxs.nl)
>>>
>>>At these rapid tc's it does ok so far. Hardware was mostly comparable (only
>>>Hossa on a 800 Mhz machine). At first sight it seems to do not bad at all
>>>against Crafties and Yaces on equal hardware. It might very well be totally
>>>different at longer time controls, no idea.
>>
>>Are you doing checks in the quiescent search again? :)
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>Well, yes :-) Since I got used to that years ago, I cannot understand how the
>others do so well without it. For me the whole "mini-qsearch with futility
>pruning" concept is one big myth. At some points I actually agree with Vincent.

:)

Have a question that appears to me every time the question "Do you do checks" is
raised. Does this mean you force the oppo to search all moves when he's in check
or do you search checkgiving moves as well in quies ?

Tony

>At times I test it again, many things you see faster without. But the holes it
>(blind spots) are a fundamental problem IMO.
>
>Good luck with Sjeng this weekend, hope we can play a few games at ICC soon!
>
>Best regards,
>Bas.



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