Author: gerold daniels
Date: 05:05:20 12/25/05
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On December 25, 2005 at 03:24:15, Mike Byrne wrote: >On December 25, 2005 at 02:38:32, Terry McCracken wrote: > >> >>It also works well under my Shredder 8 GUI, it's very easy to setup an UCI >>engine. Man it's one mean engine! I honestly feel this engine plays more like a >>human master than anything I've ever seen, and that is very important to >>experienced players, who need that "human" feel from a game. >> > >I'm in 100% agreement --- claerly has the master human feel for the game like no >other engine. > > > >>IMO in the middlegame, Rybka passes the Turing Test, and will in the future buy >>this engine, as it has broken new ground, were in another revolution in computer >>chess. > >Again,I'm in 100% agreement - IMO, this is just as big, if not bigger than when >Fran Moresch implemented his null move approach into Fritz during 1991/1992. > >From Ed Schröder's webpage > >http://members.home.nl/matador/chess840.htm#NULLMOVE > >" I first heard of Null-Move in 1986 during the World Championship in Cologne, >Germany. Don Beal was participating with his chess program that used a Null-Move >technique in his Quiescent Search, the seed of a major breakthrough in computer >chess was sowed. > >During the tournament Frans Morsch (FRITZ) kept on talking about Null-Move to >me, "Ed, there must be something real good in Null-Move, I am going to research >this". I didn't pay attention and shrugged, Null-Move, no way. > >But then in 1991/92 Frans Morsch implemented Null-Move is his Fritz in a new way >and Null-Move became a big success as it was a very powerful and easy way of >doing selective search, no more tricky static evaluation tricks, but the >relative safe search based R=2 approach, easy, clean and powerful. > >Then Frans leaked his Null-Move approach to Chrilly Donninger the author of >NIMZO who wrote an article in the ICCA journal and Null-Move became public. >Nowadays I can't mention a chess program that doesn't use Null-Move, the chess >programmer community owes Frans Morsch a big thanks" > >> >>Terry Hello Mike and Terry. It is the most human like engine i have played. I have been testing the beta verison since it came out. There is not one free engine that can beat it. Gerold. P.S. Toga is the only program to gives it any trouble.
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