Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: What version of Zappa played? 2.0b

Author: Keith Ian Price

Date: 11:28:29 08/19/05

Go up one level in this thread


On August 19, 2005 at 14:07:58, Ralph Patriquin wrote:

>From ICC:
>
>Razer kibitzes: supercoz, what version of Zappa is running?
>
>supercoz kibitzes: 2.0b
>
>mblood kibitzes: is that downloadable?
>
>supercoz kibitzes: nope
>
>supercoz kibitzes: but you can get 1.0, which was good enough to win CCT7
>
>supercoz kibitzes: and do pretty well in WBEC.  Its really a pretty good engine
>                   as long as you don't play a ton of blitz
>
>GoodKnightMoon kibitzes: how different is 1.0 and 2.0b? can you say what
>                         was added?
>
>supercoz kibitzes: the passed pawn eval is totally different, the kingsafety
>                   is much better, the parallel searchis more efficient,
>                   and the extensions and q-search are better
>
>supercoz kibitzes: I mean really its just improved all across the board

I think Zappa would do much better at Blitz with a change in the time management
routines. At the end of a game, it usually has over half its time left, while
the other program is nearly running out of time, but winning. Perhaps they
should be adjusted dynamically depending on the length of game, if the
tournament games are played properly. Also 1.0 doesn't play any differently with
5 5 than with 5 0, as far as time usage. It seems to ignore the extra time
afforded by the increment.

kp

kp



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.