George, I think you are missing a few details here which are very important.
1. Gothic Vortex is a 32-bit engine that manipulates an 80-bit emulator to simulate the 80-square board. Therefore, it must be slower than any dedicated 8x8 chess software.
2. He does not have the strongest version of the program. In fact, the public version of Vortex has part of its IQ and search functions disabled.
3. Vortex is largely based on crafty, so crafty as a dedicated 64-bit chess engine should always find such solitions more expediently!
GothicChessInventor wrote:
George, I think you are missing a few details here which are very important.
1. Gothic Vortex is a 32-bit engine that manipulates an 80-bit emulator to simulate the 80-square board. Therefore, it must be slower than any dedicated 8x8 chess software.
2. He does not have the strongest version of the program. In fact, the public version of Vortex has part of its IQ and search functions disabled.
3. Vortex is largely based on crafty, so crafty as a dedicated 64-bit chess engine should always find such solitions more expediently!
Yes of course, testing Gothic Vortex for Chess positions is not logical and it's more or less pointless....
But i was referring to the test position that is not a good one since white wins easily, even if you remove white's d2-Bishop, white still wins!
After his son's birth they've asked him:
"Is it a boy or girl?"
YES! He replied.....
Hi...Well, I was really comparing it to some of my test positions for my dedicated chess computerors...
And since I posted that position, I have found out that it is doing excellent...finding difficult moves that other programs require much time to find..
rightrook wrote:Hi...Well, I was really comparing it to some of my test positions for my dedicated chess computerors...
And since I posted that position, I have found out that it is doing excellent...finding difficult moves that other programs require much time to find..
.thanks anyway...
Robert
The only thing that I did radically different to Crafty was to use my new piece values derived from my 80-square research:
Level one found a mate in 9...only 1 or 2 sec..... and then announced mate in 8 on the next move.......
Can the "Copper" version time be increased to about 10 sec.?
Does it have a "level two"...?
Keep up the good work!
regards
Robert
Vortex Copper is ancient history compared to the new product line, called Vortex Nuclear.
After the 2007 Championship, I will make a version of Nuclear available for download. It will come with 4-piece tablebases and up to 30 seconds per move thinking time. But, it is a 200 MB download!
Anyone who defeats Nuclear will have their name on the website, forever, provided they send me their game and their claim is true.
