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Subject: Re: Rexchess

Author: F. Huber

Date: 04:09:17 01/09/04

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On January 09, 2004 at 06:39:19, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On January 08, 2004 at 18:06:15, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On January 08, 2004 at 17:57:58, Tom Likens wrote:
>>
>>>On January 08, 2004 at 12:51:06, José Carlos wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Having a look at the search engine I found a post about Rexchess. I recall it
>>>>searching really deep in my old 286. And I mean deep, like 9 or 10 plies. Is
>>>>there any documentation about its search techniques anywhere? It's old and
>>>>problably its search is really outdated, so maybe its secrets are public...
>>>>
>>>>  José C.
>>>
>>>Jose,
>>>
>>>Do a search on messages posted by "Don Dailey".
>>>
>>>regards,
>>>--tom
>>
>>Found a page about it.  In Czech, though.
>>http://www.multiweb.cz/max.rubin/rex230.htm
>
>
>the problem with older versions of rexchess on fast machines is that
>the benchmark it starts at the beginning is causing a crash of the program.
>on today's machine the loop is done too fast and the machine gets a division by
>sero.

What do you mean by ´older versions´ - I´ve never heared about newer ones!?

But I´ve patched exacatly this benchmark code in the program to run also
on fast computers of today. Since now RexChess is being available for free,
I think it would be no problem to give away my patched version. (?)
(So if somebody wants it ..... ;-))

Regards,
Franz.




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