Author: Bas Hamstra
Date: 05:23:04 01/19/02
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On January 19, 2002 at 03:09:56, Tony Werten wrote: >On January 18, 2002 at 14:47:28, Bas Hamstra wrote: > >>On January 18, 2002 at 12:36:55, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >> >>>On January 18, 2002 at 12:26:00, Bas Hamstra wrote: >>> >>>>You can do only "evasions" or you can do checkgiving moves, in which case you >>>>must also do evasions. I do checkgiving moves. >>> >>>My biggest question is always how do you manage this without >>>blowing the search totally out of proportions :) >>> >>>-- >>>GCP >> >>I don't know how others do it, but it helps a lot if you don't allow too many >>consecutive checks that are not captures. Many do only checks at the first ply, >>and that already helps a lot against the blind spots. Others do it more extreme >>and are not even using SEE pruning. Did you ever play SOS? He does it pretty >>extreme, but still has a very strong program (ex amateur world champ). >> >>Question for me is how good it "scales". In blitz it is no question: it is >>better. To prove this, see below a blitz tournament with 119 engines after round >>25 :-) > >You could have a point. I also use checkgivers and at the speedchess tournement >at the WMCC I did a lot better than one would expect from my modest hardware. Tony why don't you release a winboard version? I get very interesting data from german CC enthousiasts, who play a lot of matches between dozens of programs. I just found out Tao-Pepito 0-6 at 60/0. Painful, but probably that's the stuff you can learn the most from. Best, Bas.
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