World Computer Chess Championship 2015
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or what the hardware is?
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Re: World Computer Chess Championship 2015
It looks like ginkgo is inspired by Wolfgang delmares checkcheck...IWB wrote:Team Ginkgo arrived at the battle a few seconds after that photo was taken
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Wolfgangs program was capable to build fortress positions and create strange positions where it was not clear if the pieces move from bottom to the top or from left to right.
He once told me that if his program is not moving its pawns over 4th rank it cannot be mated.
The maximum he tried was getting a draw.
Seems ginkgo is inspired by wolfgangs thesis.
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This page lists hardware but I'm not sure it's accurate. For example it says Komodo's playing on an i7 (it's playing on Larry's 24 core dual-xeon)
https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/WCCC+2015
PROGRAM - COUNTRY - PROGRAMERS/OPERATORS
CORES - THREADS - PROCESSOR
Fridolin DE Christian Sommerfeld
4 7 Intel i7
Ginkgo DE Frank Schneider Ingo Bauer
6 6 Intel i5
Hiarcs GB Mark Uniacke Harvey Williamson
28 Intel Xeon E5-2697 2.8
Jonny DE Johannes Zwanzger
2,400 2,376 AMD x86-64 2.8
Komodo US Don Dailey, Larry Kaufman, Mark Lefler Erdogan Günes (operator)
24 24 Intel i7
Maverick US Steve Maughan
1 1 Intel i7 2.8
Protector DE Raimund Heid Timo Haupt
8 15 Intel i7 5690x 4
Shredder DE Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
16 16 Intel i7
The Baron NL Richard Pijl
16 16 Intel E5-2687w 3.1
https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/WCCC+2015
PROGRAM - COUNTRY - PROGRAMERS/OPERATORS
CORES - THREADS - PROCESSOR
Fridolin DE Christian Sommerfeld
4 7 Intel i7
Ginkgo DE Frank Schneider Ingo Bauer
6 6 Intel i5
Hiarcs GB Mark Uniacke Harvey Williamson
28 Intel Xeon E5-2697 2.8
Jonny DE Johannes Zwanzger
2,400 2,376 AMD x86-64 2.8
Komodo US Don Dailey, Larry Kaufman, Mark Lefler Erdogan Günes (operator)
24 24 Intel i7
Maverick US Steve Maughan
1 1 Intel i7 2.8
Protector DE Raimund Heid Timo Haupt
8 15 Intel i7 5690x 4
Shredder DE Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
16 16 Intel i7
The Baron NL Richard Pijl
16 16 Intel E5-2687w 3.1
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In the Niels Bohrweg I could not find the snellius building so I asked a local bus driver. He had to look it up. He also asked why. When I told him I came to visit the World Computer Chess Championship he looked at me like I was some kind of fool. Also he had never heard about it.
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So did you enjoy attending the World Championship?
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Most of them were unfamiliar. There were some Germans I don't know.
Also most players are only busy with their games and have nothing to do with visitors.
Now I know everything about Chinese chess. By the way sjaak II lost a game for it refused to move because it applied a fifty rules move which is not valid for Chinese chess.
I met Jaap van den Herik and I told him that I had read his book (partly) on Computer Chess at about 1985 or so I don't know the exact year anymore. I only remember that he also wrote about quiescence search.
Also most players are only busy with their games and have nothing to do with visitors.
Now I know everything about Chinese chess. By the way sjaak II lost a game for it refused to move because it applied a fifty rules move which is not valid for Chinese chess.
I met Jaap van den Herik and I told him that I had read his book (partly) on Computer Chess at about 1985 or so I don't know the exact year anymore. I only remember that he also wrote about quiescence search.
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I've been coming there for15 years and I still occasinally get lost on the campus in Leiden. I know a round-about route to get to the Oort building by bike, and the Snellius is across the road from there, so I'm able to get there ok if Idon'ttry to be smart and cycle there by a more direct route.Henk wrote:In the Niels Bohrweg I could not find the snellius building so I asked a local bus driver. He had to look it up. He also asked why. When I told him I came to visit the World Computer Chess Championship he looked at me like I was some kind of fool. Also he had never heard about it.
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Oh boy, looks like their doing more than playing computer chessHarvey Williamson wrote:Doing battle with Erdo and Mark of team Komodo in Leiden.
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This one? i remember reading that sometime in the nineties. In fact there is a remnant of it in every program I've ever written, to this very day.Henk wrote:Most of them were unfamiliar. There were some Germans I don't know.
Also most players are only busy with their games and have nothing to do with visitors.
Now I know everything about Chinese chess. By the way sjaak II lost a game for it refused to move because it applied a fifty rules move which is not valid for Chinese chess.
I met Jaap van den Herik and I told him that I had read his book (partly) on Computer Chess at about 1985 or so I don't know the exact year anymore. I only remember that he also wrote about quiescence search.
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No I don't think so. It was more a thick promotion report of 300 pages or so. But I don't know anymore. It is 28 years ago. It only remember it was a thick heavy book and I lend it from the library in Enschede.Evert wrote:This one? i remember reading that sometime in the nineties. In fact there is a remnant of it in every program I've ever written, to this very day.Henk wrote:Most of them were unfamiliar. There were some Germans I don't know.
Also most players are only busy with their games and have nothing to do with visitors.
Now I know everything about Chinese chess. By the way sjaak II lost a game for it refused to move because it applied a fifty rules move which is not valid for Chinese chess.
I met Jaap van den Herik and I told him that I had read his book (partly) on Computer Chess at about 1985 or so I don't know the exact year anymore. I only remember that he also wrote about quiescence search.