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Subject: Re: I played 4 games against Zappa 2.0b tonight if anyone wants to see

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:30:52 08/23/05

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On August 23, 2005 at 06:18:31, A. Cozzie wrote:

>Zappa is not really that great at blitz.  In fact before the WCCC I did a test
>at 5+0 vs Fruit and Fruit won 75% - and I was using 2 processors for Zappa.
>
>However at 15+5 that score was reversed (of course I was still cheating there :)
>
>The reason is that Zappa concentrates on getting a deep search by an efficient
>branching factor, not pruning/big nps, so it needs some time before it begins to
>outsearch opponents.  It is a serious chess engine, not a blitzer.

I am curious about your per CPU efficiency.  I suspect that you have done
something very good here, as on multiple CPUs Zappa becomes a fire breathing
monster.

Have you exceeded .7 per new CPU?



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