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(Message started by: SpeedRazor on Jan 11^th, 2012, 4:36am)

Title: Komodo Chess Engine Website mentions Arimaa
Post by SpeedRazor on Jan 11^th, 2012, 4:36am

http://komodochess.com/

Are they an Arimaa Bot Developer and I just don't know it, or is this another wayward Arimaa fan?

Title: Re: Komodo Chess Engine Website mentions Arimaa
Post by Janzert on Jan 11^th, 2012, 4:44am

Yes, Don Dailey wrote bot_Occam one of the first Arimaa bots.

Title: Re: Komodo Chess Engine Website mentions Arimaa
Post by SpeedRazor on Jan 11^th, 2012, 5:09am

Thnx, Janzert :)

Darn!

Title: Re: Komodo Chess Engine Website mentions Arimaa
Post by omar on Jan 12^th, 2012, 10:59am

Wow, Komodo is at #5 now on the CCRL rating list:

http://computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/

Don and Larry are really working hard on it.

Title: Re: Komodo Chess Engine Website mentions Arimaa
Post by omar on Jan 12^th, 2012, 12:05pm

I just sent a message to congratulate Don and he replied with:

Quote:

It has been number 2 for a while - if you compare only single processor version. It' a real horse race for the 2-4 place programs and we have a great deal of confidence that we will be number one shortly! Our program is improving faster than all the other top programs.

Look at this list which is run with more scientific vigor than the others:

http://www.inwoba.de/index.html

The multi-threaded version is on it's way, I'm working on that right now even as I receive your email.

Wow, the multi-threaded version should get a pretty good boost just due to the additional hardware it can use.