Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:29:13 09/25/02
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On September 25, 2002 at 17:18:56, Roy Eassa wrote:
>On September 25, 2002 at 16:45:18, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Thinker (in a 36 game blitz match) scored 1/3 of the points from Ruffian.
>>
>>What is so miraculous about that?
>>09/21/2002 01:14a 81,920 Thinker.exe
>>
>>Thinker is an 80K binary. About the size of TSCP.
>
>
>So who wrote it?
Lance Perkins, Canada
>Where did you get it?
http://www.geocities.com/thechessthinker/
>Does it have all the usual features?
Glancing at the string table, we find:
result
remove
feature
computer
random
protover
post
nopost
black
white
undo
force
edit
hard
easy
level
quit
xboard
otim
time
0-0-0
O-O-O
0-1 {Black wins}
1-0 {White wins}
1/2-1/2 {draw}
move %s
>How can other people get it?
By downloading it.
>(And, why is smaller better for a WinBoard engine?)
If I told you I got 1000 Horsepower out of a motorcycle engine, wouldn't that be
surprising?
Smaller is better because there is a lot of room for additional chess knowledge
and other improvements. Smaller is better because it is more flexible and
simpler to maintain and understand.
But bigger is better when done right. I expect (eventually) Thinker will become
'bigger'.
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