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Hi, I think I can answer this one :lol: I made a mistake (actually a couple) making Gideon Pro WB/UCI compatible. Usually mistakes have the tendency going down in elo, not so with this one :wink: elo went up! To make a long story short, I took the then current ProDeo (thus with the WB/UCI software) ...

I think the Schröder program lineage is Rebell 5.0 -> MM IV -> Academy -> MM V -> Polgar/Milano -> (Risc) -> Nigel Short. Although similar to the MM IV in playing style, the Academy has the more elegant 8-button UI of the Polgar. The Nigel Short is the Polgar enhanced with some lessons learned deve...

CatPower wrote:on behalf of the rybka forum

Happy New Year on behalf of the REBEL forum

Seriously, many happy hundreds of new juicy elo points for HIARCS in 2011.

It is very sad that I have to write this letter. Someone I consider a friend has used a cracked version of a product sold by Hiarcs.com in an official tournament . Rather than apologising when confronted about the issue you constructed a way to ban me from the events you organise. I heard a differe...

If memory serves me well you are right. Improvements of the ChessMachine were ported into the Polgar 6502 version. It would explain. I further remember the Nigel Short was only sold in the UK (hence its name) being part of an attempt of H&G to conquer the British market. Very few were sold, it e...

PS - For a stronger Pro Deo switch learning ON, it was switched off for beta testing but Ed forgot to switch it on in the official release. It's not forgotten. It's just that because Pro Deo 1.6 is a new animal one has to play a few hundred games first and build a new learning file from those games...

Fernando wrote:We have one and only one set of original ideas. Life us putting them to work.
Once you get to the roof, all is over.

Fernando

100% correct. And age related. All the famous scientists did there major discoveries when they were (relatively) young.

Original regards,

Ed

Enough is enough. Ed was decades developing chess programs, it is time for him to do something else. When you are around 60 or near that. as I am, you think twice the use of the remaining time you have. Supporting Ed retirement regards fernando You couldn't have said it better old chap. Although it...

Robert, I test it but it seems that is in a level of fast moves. How can i change the level of play of the MMV or MMIV through the keyboard in this emulator? best Ricardo Press F5 then type the level number, by head: 1 - 5 secs 2 - 10 secs 3 - 30 secs 4 - 1 min 5 - 2 min 6 - 3 min 7 - 6 min 8 - for...

Hi all,

Play chess again against the MMIV and MMV on your PC.

http://www.top-5000.nl

Thanks goes to Thorsten for pointing out the emulator software to me and to Saitek for their courtesy to abstain the copyright of the 2 programs.

Regards,

Ed

I have one quibble. null-move was not a 1998 thing. Maybe you meant 1988? Beal's paper "Selective Search without tears" was published (I think) around 1986. That was when I started using null-move myself, although not with the aggressiveness we use today... You are absolute right, in 1986...

kaufmann can IMO say many things. but fact is that zappa has only those chances when it uses 4 or 8 CPU's. with 2 or 1 zappa has no chance against rybka. so rybkas implementation is either not so good or the advantage of rybkas evals is eaten by zappas search progress in scaling from 1 to 8 cpu's. ...

I agree they are the two general purpose major advances although there are other ones that also offer extra Elo, like futility or even eliminating losing captures from the quiescence search. There are also many other search improvements which overlap with 1 & 2 and hence are much less effective...

Ed,Things are not so simple about search. Hi Uri, 1)When we talk about history based pruning different programmers have different implementation of it and one implementation may be 50 elo better than the second implementation. That's highly unlikely. 50 elo only can be gained by a new fresh idea, l...

Hi Ed, Thanks Ed, that is interesting. That article certainly starts to mention some of the stuff I was thinking of. The article I remember (or not so well!) talked about what the testers would say about one program having more knowledge (but really it searched deeper), it mentioned doubled pawns a...