Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: New version of TSCP!

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 12:21:46 08/04/98

Go up one level in this thread


On August 02, 1998 at 17:30:37, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>When I first wrote TSCP, I had no idea it would be so popular. It's been a year
>since I released the first version and I'm still getting one or two e-mails a
>week thanking me for it. A number of people have written graphical user
>interfaces for it, a few people have written XBoard interfaces for it, and one
>person fixed it to search with multiple processors!!
>
>I'm happy that it's been so useful, but every time I hear about it, I always
>think about the evaluation function. You see, I didn't spend that much time
>(maybe half an hour) on that part of the program. It's missing several essential
>terms, and a few of the terms it does have are implemented wrong.
>
>This afternoon I rewrote the function. Now it has all the important terms and
>calculates them correctly. It isn't state-of-the-art, but it is solid and it's
>something I'm not embarassed about.
>
>So, if you're interested, the version number is now 1.1 and it's on my web site:
>http://home.earthlink.net/~tkerriga
>(it's on the computer chess page)
>
>Cheers,
>Tom


Hi Tom,

I just downloaded v1.1, for which thanks very much.  As I was saying on ICC
the other day, TSCP is an excellent resource. Very useful and highly
recommended!

Hope your WinCE prog is selling well.

Cheers

Andrew



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.