gull chess

[ThinkingALot]

What are the changes have you made from 2.2?

Some search tweaks. You can view the changes using a text comparision utility (http://www.angusj.com/delphi/textdiff.html).

[User923005]

This thing works really well too:
http://winmerge.org/

I set it to "ignore all white space" on the settings page, because I run the code through indent:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/univers ... =directory
{I don't use the GUI tool, I just run it from the command line with my own scripts}

I also change all of the structures and enum so that they are not unnamed. This is helpful so that documentation tools like doxygen won't label them as "struct <irritating absurd nonsense structure name goes here>".
[see attached image]

[Magdalina]

thanks, these utilities are really useful

[Magdalina]

done a short test for the new version of the bird.
120games, 1+0 bullet time control, 128 hash table each, both in original parameters in intel dual core.

Gull 2.3 x64 (+32elo) +30/=71/-19 54.58% 65.5/120
Gull 2.2 x64 (-32elo) +19/=71/-30 45.42% 54.5/120

wow. excellent strength gain!

[Magdalina]

And 2.3 vs 2.1. same time control and all as above.

270games

Gull 2.3 x64 +85 elo +106/=123/-41 62.04% 167.5/270
Gull 2.1 x64 -85 elo +41/=123/-106 37.96% 102.5/270

wow.

[Adam Hair]

Has anyone had a problem with running Gull 2.2 or Gull 2.3 under linux+Wine with the hash set to 1024 MB or more? At 1024 MB, the speed is approximately 15 kns on my computer as opposed to approximately 1500 kns when the hash is less than 1000MB . Also, when the hash is set at 2048 MB, Gull becomes unresponsive (will not send 'readyok'). I have 'Large memory pages' set to false since similar options for other engines seem to be incompatible with Wine.

[Magdalina]

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Hellow ThinkALot. Congratulations for being qualified for stage4. Can we have the new Gull R600, the one that's competing for stage4?

[ThinkingALot]

I'll keep this version private.

[Damir Desevac]

why keep it private? Gull 2.3 is old. People want Gull R600.

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Gull 2.3 is not that old Damir

Besides,the author has the right to do whatever he wants with his creation
Dr.D