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

Author: Sean Empey

Date: 23:06:34 05/25/04

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On May 25, 2004 at 19:48:27, Axel Schumacher wrote:

>On May 25, 2004 at 18:05:30, Sean Empey wrote:
>
>>On May 25, 2004 at 17:08:56, Axel Schumacher wrote:
>>
>>>On May 25, 2004 at 15:44:33, Sean Empey wrote:
>>>
>>>>On May 25, 2004 at 15:36:23, Günther Simon wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>...snip...
>>>>>>>>>>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.
>>>>>
>>>>>May be you want to have a look also here:
>>>>>
>>>>>http://home.t-online.de/home/g.simon.rgbg/
>>>
>>>Or here, where Storm 0.6 made the 218th place out of 275 engines :-):
>>>http://www.grailmaster.com/misc/chess/comp/compindex.html
>>>
>>>http://www.grailmaster.com/misc/chess/comp/elo1.html
>>>
>>>
>>>(Note: UCI means, that a wb2uci adaptor was used with this engine).
>>>
>>>Axel
>>
>>Thanks but keep in mind Storm 0.6 is a weak version and my first attempt at
>>writing a chess engine. I'm sure it does bad in a lot of tournaments. The
>>current Storm is a completely new program.
>
>I know; I'm pretty sure it's improved tremendously. A reason more to send it to
>some tournaments (including mine :-). Would be nice.

When is your next tournament?

I would enjoy running Storm in tournaments that do not require me to travel. I
had no idea so many people put on tournaments and devoted the time. My hats off
to you folks.

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>>>>
>>>>Thanks for the link.
>>>>
>>>>Sean
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Regards,
>>>>>Günther



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