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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