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Subject: Re: Poor Sharky without a single W or even D

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:31:39 07/12/02

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On July 12, 2002 at 13:55:27, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On July 11, 2002 at 13:05:43, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On July 11, 2002 at 09:49:39, Jorge wrote:
>>
>>>Wow! Sharky really got bullied around. I heard it had some time problems. But
>>>did it loose all the games due to time problems?
>>
>>Sharky uses some new ideas, and was not tested on this sort of fast hardware.
>>Due to speed much higher than the author was used to, the program (which
>>allocates whatever memory it wants) exhausted physical memory and started using
>>disk for ram during the matches.
>>
>>There were some occasions where Sharky managed an advantageous position during
>>the games but fell short.
>>
>>It seems that the author has interesting and novel ideas, but perhaps they could
>>use some more development.
>
>That is interesting, but how did you come by that information? Do you know of
>any specific new ideas that he used?

Email interchange with Andrew Williams.  I suspect that they had a conversation
about algorithms, but I do not know how it is that Mr. Williams came upon the
data.



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