Author: Will Singleton
Date: 08:57:48 01/25/99
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On January 25, 1999 at 06:12:09, Andrew Williams wrote: >On January 25, 1999 at 04:24:37, Will Singleton wrote: > > >Hi Will, > >Thanks again for all the work you are putting in to this. > Not much effort, just a couple hours on Sunday night. I've got it on a spreadsheet, so I just plug in the new numbers. Might put in a moving average, like a 3-week thing, if there's enough room. >> >>Everything else was fairly quiet this week. No new highs were recorded, >>and no one changed hardware. Stobor played a few games and moved up to >>second place, closely followed by TDChess. >> > >Two notable things from PostModernist's point of view: > >1) Amateur seems to be "back on form". This weekend, Amateur v0.9h was >+2 =1 -0 against PostModernist. I haven't looked at the games yet, but >perhaps Amateur is going back to its old role as chief tormentor of PM? :-) > I put a new version on, which finally has eliminated all ply 1 scoring terms. That enabled me to add the "valid" part of the hash lookup (not possible with interior node scoring), and both together have sped it up and improved play. The pv in particular is more reasonable, and I get more correct guesses on the opponent's move. But, more likely, it was just a fluke. <g> The first game I recall you put all your pieces back on your first rank, then a kside attack got you. The second game also had a kside attack, I think. Any changes in that area? >2) PostModernist managed to chalk up its first wins against crafty clones. >The first was on a K6 233, but the second was MrsLovett on a PII 266. Over >the weekend, I finished up +1 =1 -2 against MrsLovett. Even if the win was >just a statistical glitch, it was a lot of fun to watch! > > Good show. I've had a couple draws against them, don't think I've had a win against one on a good machine. Will
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