Author: José Carlos
Date: 08:27:47 02/02/04
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>Round 9: >The last game was against Averno. As far as i know, José Carlos has rewritten >his engine from the scratch in the last year. So i didn't know how strong his >engine is now. >In the middle of the game, BB has reached a position with some well positioned >pieces, like the white bishop. It seems this was enough for the final win over >Averno. Hi Andreas, congratulations on a good tournament. I haven't rewriten Averno, but I've written a totally new engine (I call it Anubis) which it 90% different from Averno (different data structures, different search, different eval...). I wanted to play with it but I didn't have time to code book, pondering a perform a global debugging, so I used the better tested Averno. It turned that while writting Anubis a lot of ideas came to my mind and I made the well known mistake of trying them in Averno. 3 days before CCT6 I had more than 20 versions and no idea which of them was better. I picked the one my intuition told me and it seems it didn't play well when forced to defend against opponent initiative (I lost all the 5 games with black). In my tests, latests versions were doing fine, I even had beaten Ruffian twice the night before CCT so I was hopeful. It was shown, as always happens, that private testing always make the engine look stronger than what real life proves. José C.
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