GM Igor Miladinovic (elo 2606) vs Achilles live

[George Tsavdaris]

Hi George,

the hardware is mentioned in one of the posts above: a PC cluster etc.

A PC cluster is a general statement....

I can't go into details here (lack of time, sorry), but am attaching a couple of interesting games played on Playchess (I know that the second game was against Rybka running on a quad).

2 games mean nothing since it could have played 30 times against Rybka and get only 2 wins and some 15 loses so.....

What about this Axon engine? How we didn't hear anything about it before?

I think that you can get more information on the development of Axon (single processor engine) and Achilles (a multiprocessor engine) if you download a pdf from the links already mentioned in the thread.

I guess you mean this PDF:
http://www.elfak.ni.ac.yu/phptest/new/axon.pdf

Well there is a big problem:
I don't understand the language the PDF uses.....

[Patatov]

This is great coverage with webcam and engine search info... I wish all the GM/engines matches were like this one

[bedouin]

Looking up that nick on Playchess :-

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Computer Rating 2540
Computer Slow 2558
Centaur 2472

Hardware details on Playchess

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ACHILLES 3     16x2Ghz, version 12.1.2007.
Experimental Multi Processor Chess Engine.
Distributed parallel 16x2Ghz AMDx64, LAN connected.
Based on Axon III 64-bit Single Processor Chess Engine.

Opening Book by Prof. Djordje Vidanovic

For such powerful hardware shouldn't he be up with the big iron?

[Tony Thomas]

Looking up that nick on Playchess :-

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Computer Rating 2540
Computer Slow 2558
Centaur 2472

Hardware details on Playchess

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ACHILLES 3     16x2Ghz, version 12.1.2007.
Experimental Multi Processor Chess Engine.
Distributed parallel 16x2Ghz AMDx64, LAN connected.
Based on Axon III 64-bit Single Processor Chess Engine.

Opening Book by Prof. Djordje Vidanovic

For such powerful hardware shouldn't he be up with the big iron?

We do not know how well it uses those 16 processors. How many games does it have?

[bedouin]

The developer of the program Vlad Vuckovic also appears on the Arena site under the Axon Bench where it says :-

Axon Bench 4 is included in Arena 1.1! With permission by Vladan Vuckovic and Prof. Dr. Djordje Vidanovic (Serbia and Montenegro) Axon is a bench program for chess engines!