Sam has closed his piano and gone to bed ... now we can talk about the real stuff of life ... love, liberty and games such as Janus, Capablanca Random, Embassy Chess & the odd mention of other 10x8 variants is welcome too
For posting: - invitations to games (you can also use the New Game menu or for particular games: Janus; Capablanca Random; or Embassy) - information about upcoming tournaments - disussion of games (please limit this to completed games or discussion on how a game has arrived at a certain position ... speculation on who has an advantage or the benefits of potential moves is not permitted while that particular game is in progress) - links to interesting related sites (non-promotional)
The new version of Vortex makes use of an "incremental hash table". It stores some of the "deep danger" from the previous search, so on its next move, it can find the "fail low" type of moves much sooner. Much of the play for Black is improved with this technology. It sees the danger, on average, 2 plies sooner, since "it" makes a move, "you" reply, and the "worse" positions for it saved from the previous search are hit without having to evaluate the positions or call the move generator. This makes the nodes/second creep up gradually as you play the game.
It is a very impressive win, combining strategy and tactics in the perfect way to defeat the software. Bascially, George got into a strong position, sacrificed material, then created a position where the program had so many legal moves, the game tree basically exploded, and it could not search very far at all.
(do skréše) Jak co chvila kókáš na někery vebrany klobe na mloveni, možeš je šópnót do véčto oblébenéch bóchnutim na linko "šópnót k oblibeném klobum" na léstko přislošnyho klobo. (pauloaguia) (okázat šecke vechetávke)