tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2623144241741547043.post7540285261533072843..comments2010-08-22T21:39:42.415-04:00Comments on Gothic Chess Hangout: One of the coolest things about Tornado...GothicChessInventorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01782831046332875032noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2623144241741547043.post-72157824331374247812007-11-24T13:46:00.000-05:002007-11-24T13:46:00.000-05:00TSCP Gothic is a 64-bit program, as is Variant Pul...TSCP Gothic is a 64-bit program, as is Variant Pulverizer. No other Gothic Chess programs are 64-bit, including Gothic Vortex.<BR/><BR/>Porting to the 64-bit world will double your nodes/second. If your branching factor is greater than 2 (and whose isn't?) this means you will search 1 ply more in the same amount of time. That's all that you'll get for creating a 64-bit program.<BR/><BR/>No Gothic Chess program uses parallel processing at the present time. The playing field is, therefore, fairly level. And, all programs are being run on the same machine.<BR/><BR/>There is no hardware advantage for any program.<BR/><BR/>Programs will win or lose by their evaluation functions in this tournament.GothicChessInventorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01782831046332875032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2623144241741547043.post-23503860238312773262007-11-24T05:52:00.000-05:002007-11-24T05:52:00.000-05:00Fact is: Vortex is ahead. Where SMIRF would be sor...Fact is: Vortex is ahead. Where SMIRF would be sorted in still is open. I have seen a lot of structural weaknesses caused by its old initial basic ad hoc design, because of which I have concluded for long, that it is needing a complete rewrite. E.g. its evaluation routine might be realized then needing less than a third of its actual time consumption. Moreover cached values still are only reused unsufficiently. Neither 64 Bit processors' increased register pool is used, nor several processes on multicore CPUs. <BR/><BR/>Because of that it nearly has been wasted time to tune it up a last time for this event. It only would be justified, if SMIRF would manage to have some victories against those strong newcomers. <BR/><BR/>Until now I still have not begun to write a new SMIRF. Instead I did some considerations in its new basic design, and whether it should run on a Mac or a PC. Unfortunately there is very few feedback and nearly no support for to proceed with SMIRF as OCTOPUS then. Therefore I think, if anything it will be a very private and slowly evolving Mac project. <BR/><BR/>Maybe things could change having a solvent sponsor for Octopus, but none seems to be interested yet. Thus as an amateur I have not the chance to put that time into such a project as need be.Smirfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04740683933025372581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2623144241741547043.post-12286254840416294662007-11-24T01:18:00.000-05:002007-11-24T01:18:00.000-05:00You know Victor I didn't have the words but you re...You know Victor I didn't have the words but you read my mind. The smirf program did play what I would call decent games. It's played much better than the other programs except its adversary. My bet is smirf will finish #2 clear ahead of the pack.The Fitz Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15109197546130258689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2623144241741547043.post-15231466709803432372007-11-23T16:38:00.000-05:002007-11-23T16:38:00.000-05:00This is going to sound weird. Even when smirf lose...This is going to sound weird. Even when smirf loses, it plays better than when most of the other programs win. I see so many wasted moves made by other programs (I'm not talking about Vortex, I mean programs other than smirf and vortex). At least smirf's play is "natural" and the way I think most of us wish we would play. I wouldn't wish myself to play the way some of these others programs do!Victor Vectorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16960172054189557491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2623144241741547043.post-62310146210554655372007-11-23T04:34:00.000-05:002007-11-23T04:34:00.000-05:00If 34. exf5?? black mates with Qg1+ Cf1 then Qxf1 ...If 34. exf5?? black mates with Qg1+ Cf1 then Qxf1 mate.Martillo Programhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05390670288624568706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2623144241741547043.post-37126725286314671542007-11-23T00:21:00.000-05:002007-11-23T00:21:00.000-05:00OK I know I'm just a dumb gurl and all but why did...OK I know I'm just a dumb gurl and all but why did white play 34. K-Q1 and not 34. PxC? Couldn't white win the black Chancellor?LeanGurlSwimmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12645615461151866235noreply@blogger.com