Author: James Robertson
Date: 23:16:23 03/01/99
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On March 01, 1999 at 15:46:33, Dan Homan wrote: >On March 01, 1999 at 15:10:08, Will Singleton wrote: > >> >>Dan, >> >>You saw the problem with Rg8 in only 6 ply, that's pretty impressive. You must >>have added some endgame knowledge recently (?). > >Actually, EXchess only sees some of the problem at 6 ply. It fails low >again at ply 8 on Rg8. This fail low isn't shown in the output because >I don't show a fail low if a better move is found (laziness on my >part that I have been meaning to fix), but you can see it switches to >Rxg5+ at ply 8 without posting a score for Rc8.... meaning that Rc8 >failed low. > >The only things I have done to EXchess recently is a little tuning >and killing some bugs. One of which was in the endgame and very >nasty (I was using a signed char to store a value in my pawn >hash tables that could, occasionally, be larger than +128..... ugh). > >> >>I notice you've got EXchess playing pretty well over at fics, you'll have to >>drop by ICC sometime and stomp the rest of us. :) >> > >I would love to drop into ICC and do some stomping (yeah, right....), but >my human account expired a month or two ago. I have other things to do >with $40 right now than re-up my membership.... My computer account >for EXchess is still active, but I am not sure if I am allowed to use >it if my human account has expired. Don't they have a student discount? James > >Another problem is that while I enjoy small distractions, large distractions >may not be so good for me right now (ICC is a much larger distraction for >me than FICS). I am trying to write up my research in the form of papers >and my thesis (really one and the same) so I can graduate in June (ok, >maybe July....). > > - Dan > >>Will
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