Author: Roger D Davis
Date: 11:39:43 09/19/04
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On September 19, 2004 at 14:25:43, Bryan Hofmann wrote: >On September 19, 2004 at 12:54:57, Andrew Williams wrote: > >>On September 19, 2004 at 11:10:14, Stuart Cracraft wrote: >> >>>Hi -- I am looking for 2 or 3 beta testers who would receive >>>(full) source code to my program and in return would provide >>>input and comments about improving the search. They would >>>simply agree not to redistribute it and in fact discard it after >>>a week or two of looking at it (and commenting.) The program is in C, >>>5000 lines. The search and quiescence routines are 600 lines total. >>> >>>The reason I am considering this is due to hitting a brick wall at 249/300 >>>on WAC for several weeks now and knowing there are things I just cannot >>>find or go further with. The above score is at 1 second per position on a >>>1ghz P3 with a small transposition table. I am told that 270-300 is considered >>>"good" for this time control on this test. On this same machine >>>at the same time setting, with WAC, Crafty gets 270/300. >>> >> >>It strikes me that comparing your program with crafty (or any other program for >>that matter) based on 1 second searches in WAC is a bit weird. And a waste of >>time. I'm pretty sure, for example, that my program would do worse at WAC 1 >>second searches than yours on that hardware and I certainly don't care either >>way. >> >>Solving WAC positions is a *side-effect* of being a good program, in my opinion. >>I would strongly encourage you to play some games. Is your program WinBoard >>compatible? If so, send it to Leo Dijksman, Guenther Simon and lots of the other >>good testers who hang out at Winboard Forum. > >That would be asking the same people he insulted a few weeks ago calling them >Have Nots and that they should be excluded from the CCC as they did not program >chess engines. This is nothing more then a lackadaisical attempt to get someone >to fix his code from him. As far as I'm concerned the Brick Wall can fall on him >and his holier than tho attitude. LMAO!
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