I was browsing through some old results in the CCRL forum, and I found this post:
Norman Schmidt wrote:Hi Aser, Graham,
Well, the xTreme II (Stormpack versions) haven't really seemed to show any improvement...
except on an inconsistent basis. a bit of a disappointment...oh well. back to the drawing board!
i'll work on a new version and release it later this year...
i'm ambitiously focusing next on bitboards, and parallel search.
many thanks to you and Graham for your testing!
Norm
So I was wondering what happened to that new version. So much for "later this year"....
Norm, personally I'd be much more interested in a bitboards-based Cyclone than some even stronger version of Fire. Perhaps after Fire 1.4 is released, you will work more on this?