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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 23:48:32 02/28/04

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On February 29, 2004 at 02:19:44, Leo Dijksman wrote:

>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

I know

I still did not send it.
I plan to give an announcment here immediatly after I send it.

I guess that it is going to be 8 hours from now but I do not promise exact time.

Uri



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