Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:39:00 01/21/99
The OrAnG UtAn project has been completed. About 130,000 EPD rows were analyzed at 12 minutes of PII 300Mhz CPU equivalent time two or more times. This basically includes every 1. b4 game played in a public tournament and many others besides. In three months, the data will become public domain. The Apocalypse project is well along and the Heartwood project is underway. We are receiving more and more requests for information, and the project is starting to pick up steam. The Apocalypse project is turning up some pretty stunning data. A surprising number of best move solutions from well known test sets are just plain wrong! An even greater number have what appears to be an equally good alternative move. This data from Project Heartwood is going to be very important, I predict. Any opening book used by a computer that does not incorporate this information will be vastly inferior to those that do. As a result, I suspect that *all* computer programs that play chess will eventually incorporate this information. Ether that or they will lose a lot to those that do. The data will be equally important to computer chess database systems. One ultimate goal of the project is to create a public domain SQL database that will allow advanced studies into the game. Curious? Read the C.A.P. FAQ: ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/Chess%20Analysis%20Project%20FAQ.htm -- C.A.P. Newsgroup http://www.dejanews.com/~c_a_p Chess Data: ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/
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