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Chexa is pestering me to participate as well. Tried to stop her, but to no avail (she's sooo stubborn...) :-) Sergio should have the latest stable version. In case I manage to improve the dev version (squashing some bug my italian fellows know very well ;) ) I'll send it to Sergio before the end of ...

To anyone interested:
tonight's match won't take place due to major unfortunate events.
It will be played tomorrow night, same time, on http://www.g-sei.org/igwt/.

On behalf of the GSEI we apologise for the inconvenience.

Cheers, Mauro

Maybe not exactly what you are asking for, but here you might find a tool that should convert to PGN the file that winboard creates with the /serverMoves parameter: http://www.g-sei.org/area-di-sviluppo/ Since he might not be able to read italian, let me address Sven and everybody might need this t...

So a big problem is that when you get to the point where the samples are low, the statistics are just all noise. You don't want to mini-max that. Indeed. My plan goes further, actually: I want to make the engine gradually kick in as the stats get lower, so to avoid having the engine being brought u...

To assign a score to a move in the book I use the expected score ( i.e. #wins+#draws/2 divided by #games) multiplied by the average number of "non-losses" (i.e. #wins+#draws divided by #games); the idea is that if a move leads to fewer draws is less reliable, possibly some refutation of the move is ...

Usually people put a time-control at the top of the search like: #define CONTROL 16383 search { if (nodes & CONTROL) { see if time reached..... } ... I have slightly different approach: I have a separate counter that I increase every time I increase node_count, then I do the ...

hgm wrote:Yep, he was right!

Somehow my router assigned new IP addresses to all computers in my LAN, so the external ports were all connected to the wrong computers! I had not noticed it.

It should work again now.

Hi HG,

this is just to notify to you that now I can connect.
Thanks a lot!

Cheers, Mauro

Hi HGM,

since you are in the mood of fixing things
Have you thought of a solution to the problem I mentioned to you lately, of some internet provider blocking the port one should use to connect to your ICS?

Cheers, Mauro

If pv nodes in the regular hash table are overwritten, then I suggest a separate pv node hash table that is permanent. There are only a few million important pv positions in total (for book usage anyway). Hadn't Ed Schroeder tried something along these lines in Rebel's heyday? I think it was called...

michiguel wrote:
Ha, ha, the closest Crafty must have been to Java, was when it participated in the WC in Jakarta.

ROTFL!



Cheers, Mauro