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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:14:13 12/07/03

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On December 07, 2003 at 18:45:27, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>On December 07, 2003 at 16:16:41, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>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 ;-)
>>
>>
>>It helped some.  However, it had a couple of rather bad openings.  The main
>>reason I was playing was to check the book stuff.  Learning had a glitch or
>>two that I had to fix.  I "think" it is running reasonably now.  Now time to
>>get back into the NUMA-linux stuff.
>
>So when you'll buy quad Opteron system?
>
>And 2 days ago I saw an Athlon64 notebook as well...
>
>:-)
>
>Thanks,
>Eugene

Quad?  I was thinking 8-way myself.  :)





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