Author: Pete Galati
Date: 12:16:37 01/05/00
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On January 05, 2000 at 14:26:42, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>On January 05, 2000 at 13:59:10, Bruce Cleaver wrote:
>
>>
>>I'd sure like to hear about an explanation of their search. Any hope for source
>>code?!
>>
>>Bruce
>
>I seem to remember a brief explanation at the paderborn site. Dunno if it is
>still there.
Hmmm, is "9WCCC" the most recent? from
http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~icca/partici.htm#centaur
2.Centaur is a highly selective program, originated from Kurchatov Institute in
Moscow. It is a unique program. Despite the
lighting speed of its hardware it only examines about 500 positions per
second. Centaur has a raiting of 2,266 at AEGON97.
Centaur uses 5 values for estimation of chess position (one realistic, two
pessimistic and two optimistic). All 5 values of a
position are saved in memory of computer and are used for choise of
direction of investigation of position.
Last modification of Centaur uses some code units from program Mirage,
which is made in Russia. Principles of Centaur
are described in ICCA Journal 1996, Vol.19 No.2.
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