Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 00:24:04 04/01/04
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On April 01, 2004 at 02:54:13, Roberto Nerici wrote: >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/. Hmm.. I was hoping for more from an April's Fool Joke... Maybe I expected to much :) Peter
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