Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 11:12:36 02/17/99
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On February 17, 1999 at 13:41:33, Will Singleton wrote: > >On February 17, 1999 at 08:18:01, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: > >>Bob, >> >>I read your report carefully. The story is over for me. I know where I am now, >>and what I have been doing. About my doubts -- yes, I did have them but there >>was that different style of play, my good faith and a rationally based >>conviction that the author is a brillant person. For all I know the author IS a >>brilliant person. However, I have enough evidence now to form my opinion about >>those early versions of Voyager -- R=3, some eval changes (e. g. bishops getting >>more bonus vs. knights than you assigned), plus some other Voyager specific >>changes which I will not mention now as the author is still, I think, working on >>the program (hopefully making a wholly new product). Bob, thanks for doing what >>I thought you should surely do -- presenting evidence. From now on, the version >>playing on ICC (a terrific blitz player otherwise) will be labelled as Voyager, >>by Robert Hyatt, modified by G. Mueller. I do intend to run it more when I have >>time, as I truly believe it to be one of the best blitzers on the Net. >> >>There are some other points that I have raised in the discussions with Dan Homan >>and Jeremiah Pennery that I think are worth further elucidation. Perhaps later >>at some point. >> >>Regards, >>Djordje > > >Looking at the results of testing posted on your website, it appears that Mr. >Mueller has done something pretty remarkable; that is, he has found significant >grounds for improvement in a program that has been under development for years >by RH. What, exactly, are the changes that have improved it? For a program >that beats Crafty on equal hardware in *every* single match (as you state), I >think people would be extremely interested to know how he did it. This could be >very exciting. > >Would it be possible to post or otherwise publish the parts of the code that >were changed, so that we may share in this great achievement? > >Re your new labeling of MagusX, etc, I don't know if Bob wrote a program called >Voyager. I thought it was Crafty. Other people have modified versions running, >and to my knowledge they retain the Crafty name. Maybe I'm wrong about that, >don't know. > >Will I spent quite a bit of time trying to find a web page that discusses this in detail, but I couldn't. Could you give me a URL please? bruce
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