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Subject: Re: Crafty 19.0?

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 09:13:05 08/06/02

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On August 05, 2002 at 11:50:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 05, 2002 at 01:51:12, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>Bob, I saw on ICC that the latest version of Crafty you're working on is 19.0.
>>
>>I know in Crafty's history, version number changes signify major changes in
>>Crafty itself.
>>
>>So....what's the big change?  :)
>>
>>
>>Thanks!
>
>
>Two things (so far).
>
>1.  different way of limiting extensions.  I am now using a "tapered"
>extension reduction so that extensions applied near the root are larger
>while those applied farther out are smaller.  I also now allow more than
>one ply of extensions near the root...
>
>2.  I am dropping msdos support and getting rid of the I/O polling model
>to handle pondering.  I am using two threads, one to do I/O and one to do
>the search.  It is cleaner...

How is it so far? Better? Worse? Needs more debugging?

                                         Albert



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