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Subject: Re: Engine description

Author: martin fierz

Date: 01:09:10 04/02/04

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On April 01, 2004 at 21:16:48, Axel Schumacher wrote:

>On April 01, 2004 at 17:00:31, martin fierz wrote:
>
>>On April 01, 2004 at 16:30:42, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.go-pirat.de/index.htm
>>>
>>>It seems to be a chess database and also has a chess engine (I think).
>>
>>it's a program for correspondence chess players, it has special functions that
>>are useful to correspondence chess players: print functions that let you print
>>postcards/letters/address labels; email/fax and address books; user-defined
>>opening books and more. it says practically nothing about the engine (except
>>that it is "strong").
>>
>>cheers
>>  martin
>
>Actually, there is some information:
>
>Engine:
>The Pirat engine uses elements of the classical procedures and heuristics in the
>first stage of development; as for example Alfa beta, Principal variation
>search, Quiesence search, killer -, Countermove -, History heuristic as well as
>Futility Cutoffs. Beyond that, it has already some selective algorithms. The
>user has access to almost all functions of the static (which only for the
>starting position is computed) and dynamic evaluation (incremental in each
>position computed) and therefore can change the playing strength and the playing
>style (see engine manual). In the next two stages of development of the engine,
>selective methods which were developed by Juergen Wolf essentially in its thesis
>(diploma) will have a priority additionally to an overall increase of
>performance.
>
>
>Cheers
>Axel


if you want, you can call this "information" :-)
but i think people are most interested in the playing strength...

cheers
  martin



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