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Subject: Re: ICC T´tournament: TSCP joined! New pairings.

Author: James Robertson

Date: 20:42:48 01/25/00

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On January 25, 2000 at 14:02:33, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On January 25, 2000 at 13:52:23, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On January 25, 2000 at 13:41:04, Will Singleton wrote:
>>
>>>On January 25, 2000 at 13:11:05, Steve McRiley wrote:
>>>
>>>>Albert Silver will run TSCP for the tournament and we are back to an even
>>>>number.
>>>>
>>>>It will run on a K62/350 and I have created the handle TSCP on ICC.
>>>>Hopefully Albert will use this one.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Nimzo           -     Hossa
>>>>EXchess         -     Ferret
>>>>Shredder        -     Grok
>>>>Gnuchess        -     Crafty
>>>>Diep            -     Bringer
>>>>Galahad         -     LambChop
>>>>Insomniac       -     Tinker
>>>>Averno          -     Little Goliath
>>>>Postmodernist   -     Shrike
>>>>TSCP            -     Amateur
>>>>
>>>>/McRiley
>>>
>>>Interesting.  I think I like this pairing better. :)
>>
>>If it is the TSCP modified to have a piece list, he's getting better than 70K
>>NPS.  May not be such a pushover!
>>;-)
>
>Modifying TSCP to have a piece list is not a trivial amount of code.
>
>A better approach to speeding up TSCP is to improve the attack() function in
>board.c. It's pretty easy to make this function many times faster. I was playing
>with this one evening and got TSCP running ~90% faster... :)
>
>Of course, all the speed in the world wouldn't help TSCP, because it only
>searches to a fixed depth. :)
>
>-Tom

Unless you change the depth or give it a time allocation routine, both of which
are fairly trivial.... :)

James



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