Happy Sun God Birthday

[CRoberson]

May all of your days be brighter for the next 6 months. At least, for those of us in the northern hemisphere.

PS: I hope there isn't any debate over what is or isn't in the northern hemisphere.

I may have a new release today. Keep checking here.

[zullil]

May all of your days be brighter for the next 6 months. At least, for those of us in the northern hemisphere.

PS: I hope there isn't any debate over what is or isn't in the northern hemisphere.

I may have a new release today. Keep checking here.

Don't know about brighter, but longer for sure!

Winter Solstice takes place today, Dec. 21, 2009. The astronomical event takes place at precisely 12:47 p.m. EST, or 17:47 UTC.

[CRoberson]

May all of your days be brighter for the next 6 months. At least, for those of us in the northern hemisphere.

PS: I hope there isn't any debate over what is or isn't in the northern hemisphere.

I may have a new release today. Keep checking here.

Don't know about brighter, but longer for sure!

Winter Solstice takes place today, Dec. 21, 2009. The astronomical event takes place at precisely 12:47 p.m. EST, or 17:47 UTC.

Ah, there in lies the issue. If there is more daylight each day, then isn't the day brighter than the day before? A day with 14 hours of
sunshine can be considered brighter than a day with 11 hours of sunshine.

[Matthias Gemuh]

Happy Sun God Birthday ?

Sounds like you won't celebrate Saturnalia

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[Zach Wegner]

Frank Zappa was the Sun God? Strange, I didn't know that before.

[CRoberson]

Happy holidays! As we see here, there are many this month.
After living in Oregon for 8 years, it is obvious why people started the
tradition of a celebration on the winter solstice.

My holiday present to the world is Ares 1.003.
I sent it to Leo, Thorsten and others. It should be on several sites soon.
Thorsten has it up now at:
http://www.thorstenczub.de/ares.html

My tests (over 200 games) suggest that it is more than 100 Elo stronger than Ares 1.0.

As before it is expressly forbidden to reverse engineer or clone it.

Again, happy holidays to you.

Charles

[Graham Banks]

My holiday present to the world is Ares 1.003.
I sent it to Leo, Thorsten and others. It should be on several sites soon.
Thorsten has it up now at:
http://www.thorstenczub.de/ares.html

My tests (over 200 games) suggest that it is more than 100 Elo stronger than Ares 1.0.

Thanks Charles. Have a nice Christmas.

Cheers,
Graham.

[Dayffd]

Happy holidays! As we see here, there are many this month.
After living in Oregon for 8 years, (snipped) Charles

Salem

[swami]

Thanks for the update, Charles, and advance Christmas and New Year wishes.

Ares 1.003
by Charles Roberson, USA.

Strategic Test Suite Conditions:

Arena GUI
10 seconds per position
700 positions
Core2Quad 32 bits, Q6600, 2 GB RAM, 2.4GHZ
Engine uses 203 Mb Hash.

Subject-wise Scores:

STS (v1.0) - Undermining:
59/100, Grade: C+

STS (v2.0) - Open Files and Diagonals:
53/100, Grade: C

STS (v3.0) - Knight Outposts/Centralization/Repositioning:
60/100, Grade: B

STS (v4.0) - Square Vacancy:
52/100, Grade: C

STS (v5.0) - Bishop vs Knight:
58/100, Grade: C+

STS (v6.0) - Re-Capturing:
54/100, Grade: C

STS (v7.0) - Offer of Simplification:
43/100, Grade: E

Overall Performance:

Total Score: 379/700

Overall Average: 54.14 %

Grade: C

Knight Outposts/ Square Vacancy are both improved over the previous version by +4 each.

Regards,
Swami

[CRoberson]

Happy Holidays again.

Found a bug last night. Fixed it and decided to release it as Ares 1.003a. It is a one line bug fix that testing suggests is worth 42 Elo.
The bug caused Ares to evaluate various won endgames as drawn.

One line bug fixes that gain 42 Elo in a program with a little over 20 K lines of code are rare. So, I considered that a holiday gift to me and
now to you

Thorsten says he will have it online later tonight. Others may put it online sooner.

As usual, reverse engineering and/or cloning is expressly prohibited.

Happy Holidays,
Charles