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Subject: Re: Tao at ICC

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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