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Subject: Re: Mirage is worth a game or two...or more

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 21:40:23 09/14/98

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On September 14, 1998 at 21:09:34, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Hi all:
>Very short just to recomend all of you to take a look at the Vidanovic site and
>get there the russian program Mirage. It is interesting to see  how he thinks
>using some kind of selective search that produces a very variable counting of
>nodes, going some time from less than 10 thousand to more than 30.Or jumping
>from 5 to 13 plys, no intermediate stops. And it does not play badly at all.
>With respect to other program there, called Rookie, it seems very soon it will
>be another proponent in the commercial arena. High searching speed but a somehat
>insipid play, but of course, as always, I am speaking from just speculative
>ground as much as I have played just one game. But, as somebody else here, I
>have the feeling that I have the feeling to measure a program just sniffing at
>it.
>Get both and enjoy!
>Fernando


With respect to Rookie, or blik on ICC, it indeed seems strong, relative to the
intermediate programs such as mine.  However, it is much weaker than any
commercial program.

I would also enjoy playing against it, but it won't play other computers.  Don't
know why that is.

Will



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