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Subject: Re: I am going to release a new version of movei soon

Author: Leo Dijksman

Date: 23:19:44 02/28/04

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On February 28, 2004 at 16:14:48, Uri Blass wrote:

>The last results of movei00_8_174 against Junior5 were positive and movei seem
>to be able to beat Junior5 with time handicap of 3:1 in the nunn2 match at 90
>minutes against 30 minutes(ponder off) and that seems to be a good reason for a
>new release.
>
>00_8_174 has result of 15-9 in the last 24 nunn match games against Junior5(it
>is 26-24 for movei if I combine this result with result of 008_168a and 008_170
>that have a bug of using swap_list[-1])
>
>Some known bugs or disadvantages of 00_8_174
>
>1)Movei00_8_174 can fail to deliver the fastest mate because as soon as it see a
>mate it may prune other mates but I do not know of cases of missing a win
>because of that problem.
>I also do not know of very long games like smarthink's games because of that
>problem.
>
>2)Movei00_8_174 does not use tablebases except internal kpk tablebases of Dieter
>that were posted here with permission of Dieter.
>
>3)Movei00_8_174 has a very small book and the book still does not know about
>tranposition.
>
>4)Movei is using logfile with the name moveiloginfo143.log(the name is based on
>movei00_8_143 and I was too lazy to change it)
>
>
>I did some small changes in movei from the last version that are probably not
>changes in the engine unless I have some bugs but I assume that every change may
>do the program weaker because of some bug so I plan to release 00_8_174 and not
>a version with small changes like changing the name of the logfile and having
>special functions to write to logfile.
>
>I plan to write some information in hebrew and english about movei and send it
>as a zipped file to Leo who is going to release it.
>
>I am not sure if I am going to finish writing information about it today and
>even if I finish it then I am still not sure if Leo is going to release it in
>his page in the next few hours but you can expect it soon.
>
>Uri

Hi Uri,

Just to let you know, I did not received the zip file sofar.

Leo



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