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Subject: Re: Stormx is this a Crafty Clone??

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it not be published or used by him or others.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.

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>>Uri



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