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Subject: Re: Dr. Hyatt: Does Crafty 19.6 have more knowledge than preceding versi

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 10:10:15 12/07/03

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On December 07, 2003 at 13:00:21, Frank Phillips wrote:

>On December 07, 2003 at 10:22:47, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On December 07, 2003 at 03:21:17, Luis Smith wrote:
>>
>>>>Yes, this is a continual process...
>>>>
>>>>But 19.6 is no different than 19.5 except for NUMA support...
>>>
>>>How do you improve upon a program which has so many things?  Obviously you can
>>>improve on strength, but Crafty already has most or all of the well known
>>>techniques in them.
>>>
>>>So the question is I guess, what is on your to-do list?  What can we expect from
>>>Crafty in the future?
>>
>>
>>
>>After I finish the Linux-NUMA stuff, it's back to the two usual things
>>that need work:
>>
>>1.  evaluation.  There are still things that are either missing, not implemented
>>very cleanly, or need tuning.
>>
>>2.  search.  There are still things that are untried here as well, from forward
>>pruning to better extension tuning or new extensions, not to mention possible
>>changes to the q-search which is now very simple-minded.
>
>
>I think the ~6.5M nps were helping a bit on ICC last night ;-)

hehe :)
do you have the games ?



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