The following abalone_prog poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: In which programming languages have you written a program of more...
abalone_prog@yahoogro...
Jan 1, 2006 3:09 am
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Hi all, hi Peter, I have just finished porting Peter Tax's Abalone program from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X (technically, it has been carbonized, as they at Apple)....
Hi Stéphane I would like to test the program against MLA, AbaPro & Nacre, but have some trouble accessing the source code. I have tried your link, but is...
Thanks. This time I'm able to read the source. It may take a week or so before I have the time to complete the code merge and test, so please have patience. ...
... Pour la fonction d'évaluation, les deux meilleures strategies (Epaminondas et Hannibal) utilisent à la fois la compacité (calculée fondamentalement...
My French is not really good, but if I understand the discussion between David and Stéphane correctly David argues that Tax Abalone must be slow. Stéphane...
... That's quite a good recollection of the discussion. You see, your French is perfect :-) ... This is what makes Abalone a complex, interesting game... ... ...
I read the search algortihm, no hash, nothing special but pure alpha beta, so i wonderred about speed. But the evaluation functions part needs more ...
... alpha beta, so i ... proven wrong ... few moves by ... make me ... As I recall this "fixed-move-count" search was made popular by the famous "Chess"...
MLA 2.0 uses a percentage of moves at node level for levels >=6, based on a measure of disorder/entropy and how strong a move has been evaluated at previous...
I have run some test of Tax 2.0 against Nacre, and the results seem to be that Tax wins most of the time. I have not run enough games to be certain of the...
... Thank you very much for the pain you've spend on it, Peer. It's nice both for me, because I'm happy to learn that the new evaluation functions in Tax's...
Peer, What concerns me is the most of the time and the imprecise time measure. And i've tried probcut with no interesting result :) with very detailed stats. ...
Yes, I agree that the statistics I provided it not sufficient to warrant a firm conclusion. On the other hand, I had so many problems with Tax looping...
Hi Peer, David and Stéphane, Here a sign of life of me: In November I also restarted working on ABA-PRO. Till Xmas I spent much time in finding a better...
Hi Tino. I know the question was directed at David, but let me throw in my experience: Yes, transposition tables are definitly worth the effort. It does cost...
MLA uses hash tables with zobrist keys (random not fixed), and one additional hash lock in each hash entry. usually, MLA runs with 2 000 000 hash entries. ...
Thanks Peer and David for your suggestions! I'm trying to find a more Abalone-specific (kind of sorted) hash-function, to prevent hash collisions. Maybe I'll...
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the abalone_prog group: Do you plan to participate in the 2006 Olympics? o Yes o Maybe o No To vote,...
abalone_prog@yahoogro...
Feb 1, 2006 8:13 am
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You mean in Italy this winter? Yeah i'll do bobsleigh ;) Moggie....
As you work with Abalone programming you often have to examine properties of the game, such as how many bits are needed to represent a move or what is the...
Now, theres is a new version of my engine released last sunday. You can download it for free at : http://www.mogwai.lunarpages.com/lovely/ Be sure you pick the...
Hi David. I would like to voulenteer a COM component that adapts abnet to your interface. This way you would be able to play not only windows engines, but also...
Hi Tino, I'm coming back to you on the hash issue. I noticed that, before putting my new MLA 2.5 on the web I had deleted one hash table feature in MLA (i dont...
I only see advantages to this :) Abnet become the communication protocol with MLA, and MLA gets the abalone arena. I see one issue nevertheless, the...
Hi David, Thanks a lot for your email and sharing your ideas! Unfortunately I haven't programmed for more than a month and haven't even started to implement...
Hello, you can download MLA 2.5 in its final build (2.5.4). I have a bug fix release to be published soon, but I'm cooking 3.0, and I'm clearly working on an...
Hi david and others. My own work with automatic generation of opening book (based on the paper by Michael Buro, 1999) indicated that weak spots in the program...
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