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Subject: Re: Chesspartner on FICS - Insomniac

Author: James Robertson

Date: 21:38:53 11/21/99

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On November 21, 1999 at 23:17:38, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On November 21, 1999 at 21:01:39, James Robertson wrote:
>
>>On November 21, 1999 at 19:45:29, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:
>>
>>>I suppose the "finger" command wasn't any help?
>>>And leaving a private message for the operator?
>>>Some suggestions you already may have tried. In that case sorry for wasting
>>>bandwith :)
>>>
>>>Jeroen ;-}
>>
>>It claims to be Chess Tiger 12.0d on a P233, 128MB. I doubt this though, as JRCP
>>(Insomniac) has played it 7 times in the past week or two, winning twice and
>>drawing once. My score against other top programs is worse....
>>
>>James
>
>I think it is Chess Tiger.  I (My modified Crafties) have played it a bunch of
>times, at different time controls, and it wins almost all of them.  I won a
>bunch at first, and I was thinking the same thing - "This can't be Tiger,
>because it's not so strong."  Then it started winning most of the games.
>Perhaps the machine is being used for some other stuff, and Tiger doesn't get
>much of the CPU during these times?

That is my theory.... it just seems too weak to be Tiger. ;)

>It may be that Insomniac's style is just difficult for Tiger, or that Insomniac
>is stronger than you think. :)  I've seen several people comment on it,
>specifically about the Dutch Open.  Some people were amazed by how deep it
>searches, and that its author is so young. :))  How long have you been working
>on it now?  A couple years, maybe?  I think by the time you've worked as long as
>some of these other people, you may be the one to beat someday, if you continue
>to improve as you've done so far.  I certainly would be glad to see it. :)

I've been doing chess programming for about 3 years now, but only started
working on the bitboard Insomniac about 1 1/2 years ago.

For how deep Insomniac searches, its tactics are amazingly bad. :( I'll either
have to make my pruning better, or do less of it.

I certainly hope I continue to improve. :)

James

>
>Jeremiah



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