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Subject: Re: Nowadays monoprocessor winner is not recognized at the WCCC ?

Author: Tim Foden

Date: 03:36:56 12/03/03

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On November 30, 2003 at 17:44:16, George Sobala wrote:

>On November 30, 2003 at 17:29:49, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>Back in the good old days when all the Affordable Home P.C. were monoprocessor,
>>the best Chess programs were combined with the best available single Processor
>>P.C. in order to have a chance of winning the World Computer Chess Championship.
>>But now we don't even give recognition to the Winner of the Monoprocessor
>>Program which was GREEN LIGHT by Tim Fodem. This was a great accomplishment,
>>since in order to win you have to at least win against
>>one of the program using much powerful system such as Dual Opteron. Both El
>>chinito and Green Light won a game against Deep Sjeng. In my Opinion List was
>>going to upset another of the big boys besides BRUTUS, but unfortunately it was
>>not given the chance.
>>
>>PS: Congratulations to Tim Foden for having the courage to enter knowing that
>>you were going to be facing Top Chess Programs using Super Computers.
>
>I second that. Well done Tim!
>
>Is the version which played going to put up onto his website? (Or even could it
>be the same version? Unlikely - 3.00 is dated March 2003).

I did use 3.00 for round 1.  After round 1 I realised I needed to make changes
to the engine to make it easier to be used in an over-the-board tournament, and
I only had some development source code with me, so later versions were all
3.0.3.4 + changes (I generally made at least 1 new small change for each round).

I'm now in the process of testing this final version to see if it's actually
stronger or weaker than 3.00.  This will take a couple of weeks at least.

Cheers, Tim.



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