Author: Will Singleton
Date: 19:09:22 12/21/98
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On December 21, 1998 at 18:58:54, Andrew Williams wrote: >Peter, > >> >>How about the rest of the U2600 members? How fast do you search? Am I the >>slowest in the group? >> > >PostModernist usually searches about 45000 nps on my K6/300. (It's written >in C, compiled with pgcc and runs under Linux). > >>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. > >Are you using Xboard? If so, you can use the ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY option: > > setenv ZIPPYNOPLAYCRAFTY 1 > xboard -blah -blah -blah -etc > >This will cause your program to abort any game where its opponent kibitzes >"Hello from crafty" at the beginning. (But you must have kib set to 1 for it >to work). I guess there will be a similar feature for winboard, but I don't >know. In general, I've no objection to the odd game from crafty clones (and >I certainly don't mind playing the original), but I've found that some clone >operators on FICS repeatedly rematch my program - 62 times in one night >recently! There's not a lot of point and not much I can learn from my program >being tactically smashed over and over. > >> >>Thanks for organizing this club, Will - it's a lot of fun! >> > >I couldn't agree more :-) > > >Andrew Williams I'm glad it's working out. And Andrew, your prog is really strong. I was happy the other day to finally get a win, which was the result of a blown opening on your side, I think. Perhaps you could share some of your implementation details. You know, extension triggers, search method, etc. I'd be interested. Regarding the auto-rematch issue, what I do is keep a list of opponents played during the current session, and when 4 games have been played by the same opponent, I decline any other games with it (him). This seems to work out pretty well, along with the noplay list. Perhaps you winboard guys can't easily get your opponent names to stuff in an array. Don't know about that. Will
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