Author: John Merlino
Date: 13:29:38 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 Stefan, I am now using Aristarch in Chessmaster 9000, and everything works very well, including thinking output. However, there is one problem. Aristarch does not appear to be using its opening book. Are there any commandline or .init file parameters that need to be set to use this book? Right now, all that I have is the engine and the book files in the same directory. Many thanks, and I'm looking forward to seeing what all the excitement is about! jm
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