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Subject: Re: Symbolic

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 06:30:25 12/02/03

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On December 02, 2003 at 08:43:53, Steven Edwards wrote:

>On December 02, 2003 at 08:09:18, Kim Roper Jensen wrote:
>>On December 02, 2003 at 07:44:01, Steven Edwards wrote:
>
>>>My program Symbolic is a serious effort, although it has a long way to go.
>
>>From my hazy memory I think you once told that it will be written in LISP with
>>the search-functions? etc. written in C++ ...
>>
>>Anything you can tell about it ??
>
>Languages:
>
>    ANSI C++ and Lisp; no assembly language
>
>Source:
>
>    1197207 bytes, 38666 lines, 318 files
>
>Platforms:
>
>    Linux and OpenBSD
>
>Data structures:
>
>    Moves, positions, many other types organized in lists instead of fixed
>length arrays
>
>    No predefined MAXPLY; search depth is limited by time and memory
>
>Search (low level):
>
>    The usual bag of tricks and a few new ones
>
>Search (high level):
>
>    Pattern recognition and planning
>
>    Ability to explain move selection process live in natural language

Sounds very interesting and ambitious.  I hope to see it released some
day ...

>Strength:
>
>    Solves 298/300 WAC (242/300 WAC in under 1 second each)

298/300 in how much time?  What hardware?  242/300 at 1 second/position
seems a bit low, unless you use a slow computer.  My latest version gets
289/300 at 1 second/position when running on a PIV 2.4 GHz.

Tord




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