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Subject: Re: Glaurung 0.2.5j FRC

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 05:15:42 07/16/05

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On July 16, 2005 at 08:04:26, Tord Romstad wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>You will now find the source code for Glaurung 0.2.5j FRC on my Glaurung and
>Scatha page:
>
>http://www.math.uio.no/~romstad/glaurung/glaurung.html
>
>This is a new beta version which is supposed to be compatible with the new
>Shredder GUI (it will not work in Arena). Because I don't run Windows, I haven't
>been able to test it. It is therefore possible that it does not work at all. I
>would appreciate if somebody could compile a Windows executable and give it a
>try in the Shredder GUI.
>
>The updated FRC code is not the only news. Glaurung 0.2.5j FRC also contains
>some new, really weird and poorly tested additions to the search. The new
>version could be 100 points Elo points weaker or 50 Elo points stronger than
>0.2.4. The former is much more likely than the latter, but the latter is not at
>all impossible. If somebody wants to run some tests (FRC or normal chess) with
>0.2.5j, I would be happy to see the results. It is definitely not ready for use
>in serious tournaments, though.
>
>Tord


I would like to test it but can't compile it. By the way how is your
investigation proceeding about the surprisingly good results of buggy extended
futility pruning?

regards Joachim



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