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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