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Subject: Re: Gothic Vortex, New Search Speeds (for Michel)

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 07:14:55 01/22/04

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So if someone was to pay the $20 for GV, would they get this new version?


On January 22, 2004 at 02:52:10, Ed Trice wrote:

>I would like to thank Michel for taking the time to publish his win against the
>previous version of Gothic Vortex. At first, I was dismissive of this result
>since it was played on a slower machine (800 MHz P3) and at fast time controls
>(10 seconds per move), but now I can see the value in playing with such
>controls.
>
>Playing at longer controls would have hidden flaws in some of the Vortex
>evaluation function routines. But now, thankfully, some of the incorrect
>assesments have been improved.
>
>Here are the times it takes Vortex to reach a fixed depth from the opening
>position. I used 1 GB of hash tables for the search on my 2.8 GHz Pentium 4.
>
>Vortex New Piece Values 1/21/2004
>Version 1.0.3
>
>Time to fixed depth from the opening
>
> 8 -  0:03 - d4 g6 Nc3 Nh6 Bg5 Ni4 Bf4 Bf6
> 9 -  0:10 - d3 Nh6 Nc3 g6 Af3 Nc6 Nh3 Bd4 Bg5
>10 -  0:34 - d4 g6 Nc3 Nh6 Nh3 Nc6 d5 Nd4 Be3 Af6
>11 -  1:02 - d4 g6 Nc3 Nh6 Nh3 d6 Bf4 Be6 Af3 Nc6
>12 -  5:18 - d4 g6 Nh3 Nh6 g3 Nc6 d5 Ne5 Nc3 d6 Bg5 Bg4
>13 -  9:08 - d4 g6 Nh3 Nh6 Nc3 Nc6 d5 Nd4 e3 Nf5 e4 Bxc3 bxc3
>14 - 50:47 - g3 g6 Bf3 Nc6 Nh3 Nh6 d3 Ne5 Bd5 c6 Bb3 d5 Bg5 Bg4
>
>Vortex "Draw  Contempt" Code in place
>Version 1.0.2
>
>Time to fixed depth from the opening
>
> 8 -  0:03 - d4 g6 Nc3 Nh6 Bg5 Ni4 Bf4 Bf6
> 9 -  0:10 - d3 Nh6 Nc3 g6 Af3 Nc6 Nh3 Bd4 Bg5
>10 -  0:36 - d3 Nh6 Nc3 g6 Af3 Nc6 Bf4 Bd4 Nb5 Bxd2 Nxc7
>11 -  2:13 - d4 Nc6 Nh3 d6 Nc3 Nh6 g3 Bg4 Ni5 Bf5 Bd5
>12 -  6:49 - d4 Nc6 Nh3 Nh6 d5 Ne5 Nc3 d6 Qd4 Nf5 Qe4 Bd7
>13 - 13:31 - d4 Nc6 Nh3 Nh6 d5 Ne5 g3 d6 Be4 Bg4 Bg5 Ni4 Be3
>14 - 65:40 - g3 g6 Nh3 Nh6 Nc3 Nc6 d3 Bd4 Bf3 Ne5 Be4 f5 Nb5 Af6 Nxd4 fxe4 dxe4
>Axe4
>
>Vortex "Draw = 0" in Evaluation Function
>Version 1.0.1
>
>Time to fixed depth from the opening
>
> 8 -  0:03 - d4 g6 Nc3 Nh6 Bg5 Ni4 Bf4 Bf6
> 9 -  0:10 - d3 Nh6 Nc3 g6 Af3 Nc6 Nh3 Bd4 Bg5
>10 -  0:37 - d3 Nh6 Nc3 g6 Af3 Nc6 Bf4 Bd4 Nb5 Bxd2 Nxc7
>11 -  2:15 - d4 Nc6 Nh3 d6 Nc3 Nh6 g3 Bg4 Ni5 Bf5 Bd5
>12 -  6:57 - d4 Nc6 Nh3 Nh6 d5 Ne5 Nc3 d6 Qd4 Nf5 Qe4 Bd7
>13 - 13:08 - d4 Nc6 Nh3 Nh6 d5 Ne5 g3 d6 Be4 Bg4 Bg5 Ni4 Be3
>14 - 65:09 - g3 g6 Nc3 Nh6 Nh3 Nc6 d3 Bd4 Bf3 Ne5 Be4 f5 Nb5 Af6 Nxd4 fxe4 dxe4
>Axe4



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