Author: Albert Bertilsson
Date: 22:10:29 12/15/03
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On December 15, 2003 at 17:17:46, scott farrell wrote: >On December 15, 2003 at 15:37:01, Albert Bertilsson wrote: > >>Hi great counters! >> >>Today the project progressed some 20%, dispite being in the toughest phase, from >>now on I guess it is downhill! Hopefully the project will be completed in two >>days. >> >>Of yesterdays new participants sfarrel (Scott Farell) proved to be a rocket, >>already has he completed close to 200 problems. > >:) clearly a few PCs doing this > >I was thinking you can probably predict which are 'big ones' and which are >'small ones'. > >Probably the number of pieces on the board, or how close to mate or something. >Or even a perft3 or perft4 calc might give an indicator. And you might be able >to break these positions out again, instead of say giving a 'big one' out as >perft8, break it down one more move, and give it out as perft7 from the server. > >just an idea Actually I consider perft(8) to be to small in general but perft(9) is to big in general so large problems is not a problem. The top list is ordered by nodes so getting a large problem is only good for the participant. The only problem is when a very slow client get a large problem and then turn of the machine, this causes wasted work, but must clients seem work rather consistently. /Regards Albert > >Scott > >> >>A warm welcome to those who are new and as a note to Benny, you do know how to >>pick your problems (just completed monster problem that took a freaky 15 hours!) >> >>As the project have more participants it is getting a very nice pace, not as >>dependent on a few particular members any more. Of course even more participants >>would be nice, to really have a go at perft(12) over the Christmas holiday. >> >>So tell your friends to follow this link: >>http://www.albert.nu/programs/dperft >> >>Regards Albert
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