Author: Sean Empey
Date: 12:46:08 05/25/04
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On May 25, 2004 at 15:44:16, Uri Blass wrote: >On May 25, 2004 at 14:58:50, Sean Empey wrote: > >>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it not be published or used by him or others.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. > >This is only the 6th division that is the division of the weakest engines in >Leo's tournament. > >There are 7 divisions when the best divisions is the premier division and the >first division. > >It is the 7th edition. > >Storm competed in all the editions from the first edition > >You can see results of it in previous editions in the history pages > >It seems that it was relatively lucky in the last edition because in the 6 >edition it only got place 29 out of 48 when Tscp was 0.5 point above it. > >see http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/his6thedition.html > >Uri Thanks for the explanation. I will take a look into it. Sean
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