Author: gerold daniels
Date: 10:53:11 11/08/05
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On November 08, 2005 at 05:05:28, Tord Romstad wrote: >On November 08, 2005 at 04:26:22, Sedat wrote: > >>Is Scatha 0.2.10 stronger than Glaurung Minz ? > >Difficult to compare, because they don't play the same game. :-) > >Scatha plays hexagonal chess, while Glaurung plays normal chess. Scatha >was written first (some time during the summer last year, IIRC), and >Glaurung started as a straightforward translation of Scatha to normal >chess. Since then, the two programs have been developed in parallell; >whenever I add some new feature or improvement to Glaurung, I add the >same code to Scatha. The source code in the two programs is still >95% the same. By making a few arrays a bit bigger, I could probably >have merged both programs to a single executable. > >At the moment, Scatha 0.2.10 is a bit more up to date than the latest >public version of Glaurung, but the differences are not very exciting. >This autumn I have mostly worked on the GUI; the engine code hasn't >changed much. The only really important difference between Scatha >0.2.10 and Glaurung Mainz is the hash table bug mentioned elsewhere >in this thread. If it turns out that fixing this bug leads to a big >improvement in strength, I will probably release a Glaurung 0.2.10 >some time soon. > >The names of my programs are probably rather confusing at the moment. >The GUI is called "Scatha", even though it contains *both* of the >engines (Scatha and Glaurung). This has historical reasons -- originally >the GUI only supported hexagonal chess, and I intended to write a >separate GUI for Glaurung later. Eventually I decided that it would >be easier to add rectangular chess support to the Scatha GUI instead. > >Perhaps I should change the name of the GUI to something else in >order to avoid the confusion. I should also write some kind of >Glaurung and Scatha FAQ. > >Tord Hello Tord. Thanks for the lastest version of glaurung. Been using Perfect bk. with it. Playing in Arena vs. Fruit 2.1. Its doing well . It is a little weak in the end game. Had a sure win and turned around and lost it. Other two games were draw. Good luck, Gerold.
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