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Subject: Re: Gothmog -- just how strong is it?

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 09:01:55 01/16/04

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On January 16, 2004 at 11:18:26, martin fierz wrote:

>On January 16, 2004 at 11:02:40, Tord Romstad wrote:
>
>>The only thing which is 100% sure regarding the strength of Gothmog is that
>>it is not quite as strong as Patrick's results indicate.  The next version will
>>be stronger, though (stronger than the current, that is, I am not claiming
>>that it will climb further on Patrick's list).  There are some ugly asymmetry
>>bugs in the evaluation function in 0.4.5, and the new endgame knowledge I am
>>adding right now should also help.
>
>...and i thought you said you had no more ideas ;-)

:-)

I think I explicitly mentioned endgame knowledge as one of the improvements
I definitely *would* do in the near future.  And fixing bugs always helps.

Of course, my engine will continue to improve for some more time, but
there is a limit.  It will never be stronger than at most 100-150 Elo
points above the current level.

By the way, I played a couple of games against muse-comp on the ICC
earlier today.  I was quite impressed by the opening play, considering
that Muse does not yet have an opening book.  Gothmog looks much more
clueless without its book.

Tord



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