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Subject: Re: Tao

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 17:29:41 10/08/99

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On October 08, 1999 at 19:49:19, Bas Hamstra wrote:

>Tired of all the experiments, but quite a few facts wiser I wanted to play again
>and started to work on the old version. And it starts to perform! Since I have a
>Celeron 466, bugfixed some eval code, improved sorting and hashing, *no* human
>has won from it, at FICS. Not even a chance. In fact it even defeated CM6000 on
>slower hardware. Well, that was a time loss :)
>
>And it plays without opening book, doing that quite well! Of course all that
>opening eval slows it down. It does 50 k on average.
>
>It deserves a name. Tao 1.1 :/
>
>- Still the incremental attacks, with 32 bits for every possible attacker
>- Incremental movegenerator
>- No SEE sorting, but SEE losers pruning
>- No piece square tables yet, but that will change, because a lot of what I do
>can be stuffed in it
>- 400k hash entries
>- Null R=2
>- No opening book, but reasonable opening eval. Centre control, loss of
>castling rights, tempi, it knows its way with it. It even stands the King's
>gambit. Occasionally it tries to defend the wrong gambit pawns :)
>- Check, One reply, Recap and Mate extensions
>
>
>Statistics for SuperBooker(C)   On for: 2 hrs, 1 min, 25 secs   Idle: 0 secs
>(playing game 7: MrZetaOfMaine vs. SuperBooker)
>
>          rating     RD      win    loss    draw   total   best
>Blitz      2030     58.5     403     346     125     874   2431 (29-Apr-98)
>Standard   1961    129.1      16      16       2      34
>Lightning  2281    110.2      30      15       0      45
>Wild       1631    318.5       0       1       0       1
>Bughouse   ----    350.0       0       0       0       0
>Crazyhouse ----    350.0       0       0       0       0
>Suicide    ----    350.0       0       0       0       0
>
>Address    : bas.hamstra@wxs.nl
>
>No revolution, I know, but I feel it is approaching master level now and it is
>climbing fast, defeating some 2200 programs. And this is FICS, no ICC, don't
>forget.
>
>
>Regards,
>Bas Hamstra.

Bas,

I've just put Amateur on fics now, if you want to play a few.  It averages about
2200 there.  btw, how did you get that best of 2431?  Was this an old crafty
account?  You might consider starting a new one (and I like the name).

Will




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