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Subject: Re: Crafty 19.13 on the Chessbase site... Link provided

Author: Bryan Hofmann

Date: 13:44:38 05/21/04

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On May 21, 2004 at 16:10:25, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On May 21, 2004 at 15:38:45, Matthew Hull wrote:
>
>>On May 21, 2004 at 15:17:55, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On May 21, 2004 at 15:05:05, Chris Taylor wrote:
>>>
>>>>http://www.chessbase.com/download/engines/crafty/crafty1913.zip
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Sort of say it all! Thank you Bob!  For providing Crafty for so many people!!
>>>>
>>>>Chris
>>>
>>>
>>>With what Anthony is working on, we might actually see a significant strength
>>>improvement with automatic evaluation tuning.  I've spent the last week making
>>>all the eval terms modifiable on-the-fly for his code.  Also now we can really
>>>start to do some "personality development" as _everything_ can be changed and
>>>saved to files...
>>
>>
>>Did Anthony use this process to tune Zappa?  It's strength was impressive at
>>CCT6.
>
>
>I don't know but I don't believe so.  But obviously we are going to apply it to
>both programs.  It is producing some interesting "values" already but there are
>more changes to be done.  And it takes a bunch of compute cycles.  He's working
>on a distributed implementation to run on our 32-node dual-opteron cluster,
>which will theoretically arrive in 14 days or so (current status says it is "in
>build" so it is getting close.
>
>I'll leave further explanation to him since it was his idea...

Something simular to this?

 http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~tony/RecentPapers/jcis01.pdf





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