Author: Sean Empey
Date: 11:58:50 05/25/04
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On May 25, 2004 at 10:38:32, Sean Empey wrote: >On May 25, 2004 at 06:55:26, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On May 25, 2004 at 06:33:36, Sean Empey wrote: >> >>>On May 25, 2004 at 06:14:52, Uri Blass wrote: >>> >>>>On May 25, 2004 at 05:48:02, Sean Empey wrote: >>>> >>>>>No, it is not a clone of crafty. I will tell you that it does use Dan Corbit's >>>>>big book and crafty's book code, and the same egtb code that is used in crafty >>>>>18.15. Other than that not much else is from crafty. Oh some of the Print >>>>>functions I referenced are from crafty 16.x if memory serves correct. Storm is a >>>>>SMP engine and uses a completely different algorithm for its search eval. It >>>>>uses ABDADA.I have offered portions of code to Professor Hyatt but on the terms >>>>>it not be published or used by him or others. My move generator functions are >>>>>completely different and I can not go into detail regarding them as some of the >>>>>code came from a professional programmer (at least the approach) on the >>>>>condition I not release that code ever. Because a program has similar evals does >>>>>not make it a clone. If I wanted to clone crafty I would not have been working >>>>>on Storm for years; actually starting about one year before CCT1. As I have told >>>>>Professor Hyatt. I am not cloning crafty. We have talked and he is fine. Any >>>>>other questions someone may have; I'm willing to answer them to the best of my >>>>>ability. I would appreciate ad hominems and other unnecessary comments not be >>>>>made as I have stated I'm willing to back-up my claim. >>>>> >>>>>Thank you >>>>>Sean Empey >>>> >>>>So what is the reason that you do not compete with that storm in WBEC(I guess >>>>that it also can use a single processor)? >>> >>>I don't have time to compete in tourneys. Chess is a hobby for me; nothing more. >> >> >>Note that you only need to send a version of your program to Leo and if it is >>stable it can compete. >> >>You do not have to release your program in order to do it and there are some >>private engines that were never released in Leo's tournament like WARP 0.58 or >>Xinix >> >>Storm0.6 competes in his tournament and >>in the last 6th division it scored 1/2 point more than tscp1.81 > >Thanks for the info. I was unaware that Storm 0.6 even was in this tournament. >Ok .5 more. It was my first release and would not call it stable at that. That >was many years ago. Surprised people still use it. > >> >>see http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/index.html and click on the 6th division. > >I will certainly take a look. Thanks. 14th out of 53 engines is not to bad. I would figure Storm 0.6 to be closer to the bottom. Thanks for the link. I had no knowledge of this tournament. I just recently came back to this forum. > >> >> >>Uri
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