Author: Peter McKenzie
Date: 02:46:00 12/21/98
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Great report from Will! On December 21, 1998 at 03:09:07, Peter Kappler wrote: >On December 21, 1998 at 02:19:08, Will Singleton wrote: > ><snip> > >>Reaching new personal blitz bests were PostModernist (2580), Hossa (2454), >>XXXX2 (2635), Grok (2425), and InmiChess (2267). Excellent work, great >>job to all. >> >>Grok has gone to version 1.0. Don't know if this means it's now available >>in some form. Note that Grok is written in Java! This is very cool >> > >Grok may become freeware in the future - I really have given this very little >thought. The neatest thing about Grok is that it is pure Java with no native >code, so it should run on any platform that supports JDK 1.1 or higher. > >Lots of people have asked about Grok's search speed, probably wondering if >reasonable performance is possible with Java. Grok averages around 25 knps in >most middlegames on my K6-300. Give credit to Microsoft for writing a very fast >Java VM and "just-in-time" compiler. I was using Sun's VM + Symantec's JIT >until a couple of months ago, when I finally tested Microsoft's stuff and >realized it was 30% faster. > >25 knps is still not too great, but I can live with it. (Grok is ~50% faster on >a PII-400, presumably aided by the faster L2 cache.) > >How about the rest of the U2600 members? How fast do you search? Am I the >slowest in the group? Of course, LambChop only searches at about 8K nodes/sec in the middlegame... > >> >>Can anyone answer the following question? >> >>I have taken to seeking with an "f", rather than specifying a rating >>range, in order to make the formula active for both seeks and matches. >>But without the rating range, I get a bunch of attempts from lower-rated >>players, who don't meet the "rating > myrating - 300" criterion. >>Is there a way to show the true rating range in the seek (relative to >>my current rating)? >> > > >Not that I'm aware of. I have the same problem, and I wish ICC would do >something about it. > > >>I want to mention that most member programs now do not discriminate >>against fellow computers. Thanks to those who switched! It will make >>more direct competition possible. >> > > >Grok still has !computer in its formula - but I am almost always watching when >Grok is online, and if I see a challenge from an U2600 member, I'll be happy to >accept. I'm just not interested in playing lots of Crafty clones. Crafty clones can be a pain, UNTIL you start grabbing rating points from them! What I really want to see is a feature, either in winboard or the server, that prevents someone from playing more than a specified number of consecutive games against my computer. It gets kind of tedious if one opponent hogs more than about 4 or 6 games in a row. > > >Thanks for organizing this club, Will - it's a lot of fun! > > >--Peter > >>Will Singleton >>Stat-Keeper and Member for Life >>Under 2600 Club A prisoner of the club :-)
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