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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