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Subject: Re: Paradise performance

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 15:30:32 08/27/03

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On August 22, 2003 at 12:19:57, Steven Edwards wrote:

>Paradise was tested on 92 positions picked from the first 100 positions from
>_Win at Chess_.  (No endgame positions were used.)  It solved all of them,
>beating out Chess 4.4 (it missed a couple), the monster program of the day way
>back then.
>
>Some time ago, I corresponded with Wilkins via snail mail and he was kind enough
>to send me a copy of some of his project notes and Lisp source.  It was very
>interesting reading; alas, I don't have my copy handy at the moment.


Wow!  I've read the paper of Wilkins that is included in Levy's Computer Chess
Compendium.  I thought his work was quite interesting.

I did not realize that something this old would still be available in any form.
Do you know if Wilkins would mind if you forwarded the material to the GAMES
group at the University of Alberta? (Our website is
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~games/ .)

Dave



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