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Subject: Re: How do people do on PET?

Author: Scott Gasch

Date: 13:16:59 07/09/04

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On July 09, 2004 at 15:27:19, Richard Pijl wrote:

>There are some really difficult positions in PET. The Baron scores between 28-32
>solved positions depending on the version (on a Xeon 2.8, 100Mb hash, all 5 men
>EGTB's). It happens a lot that performance on PET degrades, but on other endgame
>suites the performance is better (e.g. the speelman suite from George Lyapko's
>site, run without EGTB's)
>
>But 10 sounds very bad. I've got another engine, basically without anything
>(only piece square tables, no hash, no egtb's, no advanced techniques, you name
>it, it hasn't got it) and it solves 9 positions (could be for the wrong reason,
>I haven't checked).

In poor monsoon's defense, it's been lobotomized lately.  I've implemented a
parallel search and redone the eval from the ground up.  It doesn't have very
much at all in the way of endgame smarts currently -- not even pawn race code.

Scott



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