Author: Bas Hamstra
Date: 18:09:23 10/08/99
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On October 08, 1999 at 20:29:41, Will Singleton wrote: >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 Ah, the 2400, yes. A friend of mine and me started an opening book project, a year or so ago. Bookup style backsolving of massive pgn. The hypothesis was that with a standard engine and a superbook, you could get a top rating. Sort of CAP, but much more positions (I think). I said the proof is in the pudding, and I'll make the software. And we started experimenting, for over a year which was pretty exciting in the beginning. Jan Kaan still maintains the real superbook. I sort of lost interest and we came to an "agreement". Still, using Crafty he has a higher rating than normal for the hardware he is on. From those days is the 2400. Anyway I'd love to play Amateur, going to try it rigth now :) Regards, Bas Hamstra.
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