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Subject: Re: Tao at ICC

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 12:35:06 01/19/02

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On January 19, 2002 at 08:23:04, Bas Hamstra wrote:

>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.

There already is a winboard version if XiniX. I use it to test at home. Just
didn't have the time to completely implement all features. Have to finish Bert
and Ernie first.

Tony

>
>Best,
>Bas.



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