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Subject: Re: Tournament page from the IPCCC 2000 in Paderborn, Germany !

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 14:12:22 01/21/00

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On January 21, 2000 at 16:59:57, Frank Quisinsky wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I visited the webpage and I get a shock !
>
>User can find all informations about all programs in english.
>
>Example:
>Sorry copyright, I know that but I am the Patzer BEARER for the monitor and ...
>(Leiden 98, 99). Other people say operator or tester :-))
>
>Patzer:
>Patzer uses the standard alpha-beta PVS search, enhanced by hashtables (4
>retries replacement scheme), recursive nullmove (R=2) with verification if only
>one piece present, special pruning heuristic for ALL-nodes, various extensions.
>It also uses a special material hash table to adjust the material balance values
>for certain endgames where the "usual" values do not apply. It values king
>safety and passed pawns rather high (too high?). It is a incremental bitboard
>program with attack tables that are also used during move generation and
>sorting.
>
>This is the best tournament webpage which I visit in the last years. A great
>event and I am hungry of the results.
>
>Fantastic work !
>
>The webpage under:
>http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~IPCCC/
>
>Regards
>Frank

Interesring list of participants, Im glad to see Comet in there this time.

Pete



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