Author: Derek Mauro
Date: 11:38:04 01/23/04
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On January 23, 2004 at 11:43:17, Thomas Mayer wrote: >> Rascal > >it's playing around at ICC since longer, using the ChessPartner-Interface. I did >some testmatches against it with Quark - it seems that the book is quite strong, >but the engine is still somewhat behind the book... (At least that was my last >experience) I guess I should tell everyone a bit about my program. I started writing the code for what eventually became Rascal around the time of the Kasparov-Junior match, IIRC, although I had been playing around with chess-related code for a little bit longer. It played it's first games on ICC sometime in February 2003. The engine is a array design and it is extremely simple. In fact it is so simple that I'm surprised at how well it plays. It also tells me that there should be a lot of room for improvement still. I don't think I've done any work on it since like October because of school work and general lazyiness. Over winter break I started rewriting the thing to include an additional data structure that would have been all but impossible without a complete rewrite, but there's no way this version will be ready and tested for CCT-6. As for your comment about the book, the book is an auto-generated Chesspartner book. I have gone through by hand and gotten rid of some lines that are either outright blunders or positions that I know it plays badly in, but there are so many positions in the book that you would either have to be Superman or have no life to find them all. I remember and won't ever forget watching a game against Quark on ICC where it came out of book at like +3 or something and still lost. This game disgusted me, and I have a feeling this is the source of your comment about the book. I'm happy to answer any questions people have about my program.
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