Author: Andreas Herrmann
Date: 09:07:11 02/02/04
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On February 02, 2004 at 11:27:47, José Carlos wrote: >>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. Hi José, thanks for your wishes and for the clarification about your engine. I have at the moment also a lot versions, whith a lot of different changes, which i havn't tested enough. So for the CCT6 i have taken the last well tested version. My CCT6 version doesn't use my new attack table structure and a lot other things i have started to implement in the last weeks. There is a lot to do in the next time to got all this new stuff working around. But at the end, i hope again for a good jump forward. Perhaps, if all is working well in a few weeks, i will release a new free version. Looking forward to see also a new release of Averno or Anubis in the near future. Andreas
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