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Where is Andscacs?

Daniel got a girlfriend.

I think he's concerned about the website being down. It wasn't not so long ago.

From an email 4 months ago:

I'm not working on Andscacs and I don't plan to work on it again, it's too much work for too little improvement

Graham Banks wrote: ↑Sat Feb 15, 2020 5:13 am From an email 4 months ago:

I'm not working on Andscacs and I don't plan to work on it again, it's too much work for too little improvement

He left the girlfriend part out

Alayan wrote: ↑Sat Feb 15, 2020 2:24 am I think he's concerned about the website being down. It wasn't not so long ago.

After my error message for the andscacs site (in new engine releases 2020) I checked the site with 'whois' and
actually it says the site was registered for another year on January 31st.

That it still doesn't work might indicate a new domain owner. Whois was hiding that info.

Hello!
Yes, unless I had magically access to hundreds of cpus, I don't plan to continue with it. Or maybe in some years with much more powerful computers, who knows...
Many thanks to all for these nice years!
Best regards.

cdani wrote: ↑Sat Feb 15, 2020 11:01 am Hello!
Yes, unless I had magically access to hundreds of cpus, I don't plan to continue with it. Or maybe in some years with much more powerful computers, who knows...
Many thanks to all for these nice years!
Best regards.

Well, what a pity. Thanks for all your work and participation, Daniel!
I hope you will come back in a few years.

Best regards,
Guenther

cdani wrote: ↑Sat Feb 15, 2020 11:01 am Yes, unless I had magically access to hundreds of cpus, I don't plan to continue with it. Or maybe in some years with much more powerful computers, who knows...

CPU hardware for idea testing is indeed quite limiting.

Noobpwnftw is donating hardware time to Fishtest and OpenBench, and some engine authors (Demolito, RubiChess, Weiss) have joined OpenBench. It makes much easier for them to not be bottlenecked by testing time, especially as authors usually don't all test things at the same time. Maybe you could think about it.

Speeding up the engine is also useful, as it gives you a higher effective TC at equal resources.

That being said, trying to gain elo for a strong engine is quite unforgiving. Just doing the same stuff as everybody else is not so interesting, the thrill is to discover new concepts that gain elo and hopefully could also help to move the field as a whole. Computer Chess is waiting for the next search trick...

Thanks a lot for Andscacs, it was the strongest engine with original style that I tested.

Also, guys, it's open source! If you don't want Andscacs's flame to extinguish there's nothing stopping YOU from releasing next version