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Subject: Re: To Stefan Zipproth (Aristarch)

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 02:42:25 08/07/02

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On August 07, 2002 at 05:33:43, Stefan Zipproth wrote:

>On August 06, 2002 at 20:26:27, Arshad F. Syed wrote:
>
>>Are you planning to release Aristarch on the SSDF any time soon? It would be
>>interesting to see how it would fare against Fritz and Junior at longer time
>>controls controls over a larger sample of games.
>>
>>Also, congrats on a terrific job done programming this brilliant engine which I
>>think is the best in the amateur category.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Arshad
>
>Of course I would be honored if SSDF would decide to test Aristarch, but I don't
>know if I can influence their decision.
>
>Thanks for your compliments! My personal opinion is that there is a chance that
>Aristarch is the best amateur, but that is far from sure, and the others are not
>sleeping. Especially long games are not tested.
>
>Besides, I hope that someone is interested in finding better engine parameters,
>but with version 3.9.68 I received only one single proposal. Every single UCI
>parameter is a good candidate to try for improvement - especially combinations
>of parameter changes are interesting (e. g. singular extensions instead of
>single response extensions).
>
>Regards,
>Stefan

It would be a great help in trying to improve play by trying out different
settings, if you could explain for us non-programmers what the different
parametres mean and how they would effect the engine, maybe even give some
example settings.

I have only played a few games with aristarch and it looks really strong, keep
up the good work!

Regards
Jonas



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