Author: Roberto Nerici
Date: 23:54:13 03/31/04
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On April 01, 2004 at 02:37:00, Andreas Stabel wrote: >I'm working in the Norwegian meteorological institute where we have a very >powerful multiprocessor / multimachine computer system to do weather >simulations. The system has been idle a couple of months now while new >models were developed, so I installed a chess program I have made and have now >been running it for seven weeks. > >The system is just an attempt at analysing the initial position to try to >develop alternate openings to established theory, but it has a complete >chess engine with all 5-man EGTBs and most of the generated 6-man too. > >I have been looking for an opportunity like this, so I have made my system >capable of distributing the search over multiple CPUs and machines and I >have tested the program extensively. > >Today when I arrived at work the program had just stopped with a draw score ! >I don't understand this - it had so far 1.e4 c5 as the best opening with a >0.37 advantage for white, but now it seem to have just stopped with score = 0. >The strange thing is that it has searched very deep and have hit the EGTBs a >lot - something which I wouldn't have thought possible. Perhaps the 20TB >hash table has been part of it. > >Can anybody help me explain this ? >All suggestions will be appreciated. It sounds like you've just proved that with optimum play, chess is a draw. Well done! You should write up the results and then we can close the forum down. Congratulations again! Roberto/.
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