Small Potato 0.6.1 released

[Alejandro Dubrovsky]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Alejandro Dubrovsky at 25 September 2003 18:24:28:

(warning! warning! unnecessaryly detailed announcement ahead)
That's right legions of starving fans, it's been just over a year, and potatoes are an annual crop, so it's harvest time. Unfortunately, severe drought in Australia has kept the harvest down to pitiful ammounts. The new products are:
Tweaked move ordering, including addition of killer move heuristic (two killer moves trained at the moment (onyuke, and tiger uppercut) (The killer moves don't seem to have much of an impact, either way, so i'll leave them on until i figure out what i'm doing wrong, or i upgrade their names to the new millenium in games)
Minor tweaking of evaluation (with unknown consequences. If only it'd stop exchanging two minor pieces for the rook+ f-pawn)
More configurable settings (wellll, slightly. You can now tell it to either waste its time in the opening or in the endgame, by setting the time usage aggression factor, and by suggestion of Dr Dann, a settable minimum number of plies at which a problem can be considered successfully solved)
Removed MTD(f) and standard alpha-beta search as search options (cos i can't even successfully keep one updated, and the estimated world usage of above features is -2)
Bugfixes (including K v K draw claim, and .... , dunno, maybe something else)
This potato cannot be much worse than the previous one, so go upgrade.
(For anyone that has got this far, and has a clue on why the new versions of cygwin produce an executable that instantly crashes, forcing me to use the cobwebby and known-to-be-buggy gcc-3.2 that comes with ancient cygwin egyptian pyramids edition, send me a note on the self-addressed homing pigeon attached)
Get the potato while it's hot, from http://smallpotato.sourceforge.net/
That url again is



http://smallpotato.sourceforge.net/

[Nicolas Normand]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Nicolas Normand at 26 September 2003 11:40:14:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: Small Potato 0.6.1 released geschrieben von: / posted by: Alejandro Dubrovsky at 25 September 2003 18:24:28:

(warning! warning! unnecessaryly detailed announcement ahead)
That's right legions of starving fans, it's been just over a year, and potatoes are an annual crop, so it's harvest time. Unfortunately, severe drought in Australia has kept the harvest down to pitiful ammounts. The new products are:
Tweaked move ordering, including addition of killer move heuristic (two killer moves trained at the moment (onyuke, and tiger uppercut) (The killer moves don't seem to have much of an impact, either way, so i'll leave them on until i figure out what i'm doing wrong, or i upgrade their names to the new millenium in games)
Minor tweaking of evaluation (with unknown consequences. If only it'd stop exchanging two minor pieces for the rook+ f-pawn)
More configurable settings (wellll, slightly. You can now tell it to either waste its time in the opening or in the endgame, by setting the time usage aggression factor, and by suggestion of Dr Dann, a settable minimum number of plies at which a problem can be considered successfully solved)
Removed MTD(f) and standard alpha-beta search as search options (cos i can't even successfully keep one updated, and the estimated world usage of above features is -2)
Bugfixes (including K v K draw claim, and .... , dunno, maybe something else)
This potato cannot be much worse than the previous one, so go upgrade.
(For anyone that has got this far, and has a clue on why the new versions of cygwin produce an executable that instantly crashes, forcing me to use the cobwebby and known-to-be-buggy gcc-3.2 that comes with ancient cygwin egyptian pyramids edition, send me a note on the self-addressed homing pigeon attached)
Get the potato while it's hot, from http://smallpotato.sourceforge.net/
That url again is

http://nicolasnormand.site.voila.fr/