Alaric new version

[Michael Sherwin]

New Alaric:

http://alaric.fendrich.se/Downloads.html

Have fun!

The Roman Empire lasted after Alaric for 1043 years untill the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Turks. It was not all decline in those years. There were periods of great strength in wich the empire was well respected and feared. In all that time, if they would have reverted back to a republic that the majority of people could believe in and would be willing to give their lives for, I am positive it would still exist today. Great empires like that of the Romans do not fall from without they fall from within when the people would rather be conqured than give their lives for their country!

[Tord Romstad]

New Alaric:

http://alaric.fendrich.se/Downloads.html

Have fun!

Hello Peter,

Thanks for the new program. Any chance of a Mac OS X version?

Thanks also for your article about Alaric and the Goths - ancient history is one of my great passions.

The Roman Empire lasted after Alaric for 1043 years untill the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Turks.

While it is true that the Byzantine Empire survived until 1453, it wasn't really "Roman" except in name, except in the first couple of centuries. For most of its history, the Byzantine Empire was completely Greek, culturally and linguistically.

If you say that the Roman Empire lasted until 1453, you can just as well argue that it lasted until the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1922. The Ottomans regarded their empire as a natural continuation of the Eastern Roman and Byzantine empire.

Tord

[Tony Thomas]

Peter, is it possible for you to say how many copies of Alaric was downloaded so far?

[Michael Sherwin]

New Alaric:

http://alaric.fendrich.se/Downloads.html

Have fun!

Hello Peter,

Thanks for the new program. Any chance of a Mac OS X version?

Thanks also for your article about Alaric and the Goths - ancient history is one of my great passions.

The Roman Empire lasted after Alaric for 1043 years untill the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Turks.

While it is true that the Byzantine Empire survived until 1453, it wasn't really "Roman" except in name, except in the first couple of centuries. For most of its history, the Byzantine Empire was completely Greek, culturally and linguistically.

If you say that the Roman Empire lasted until 1453, you can just as well argue that it lasted until the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1922. The Ottomans regarded their empire as a natural continuation of the Eastern Roman and Byzantine empire.

Tord

Hi Tord,

The Roman Empire became more than land conqured by Latins. It became a people that believed in roads and aquaducts and civilization. The only word that stood for that in that part of the world during those times was "Roman". Greek may have been and always was the underlying culture of the eastern empire and the Greeks never forgot that they were Greek even though they also thought themselves as Roman. To call a citizen of the eastern empire not a Roman was considered to be an insult. The word Byzantine was not even invented untill long after constantinople had fallen and then only by western historians that wanted to downplay the Roman Empire's part in history by pretending that it fell in 476 A.D. Justinian, whom almost retook the west a century or so later also was responsible for the Roman Codex of law--not the Byzantine Codex! The very last emporer that died defending Constantinople as it fell to the turks called himself Roman. In 1926 when the Greeks became independant they suposedly looked for an heir to the Roman throne and would have ressurected the ROMAN EMPIRE if they had found one! Even in 1926 there were Greeks that thought themselves as being Roman.

The Ottoman's only wanted to use the term Roman to strengthen their claim to the land and for political clout. The Russians tried to claim that they had the right to succession of the Roman Empire for religious dominance. Same as the Holy Roman Empire in the west. All those mentioned in this paragraph and more used the word Roman when it benifited their political or religious purposes, but none of them really thought of themselves as Roman! And that is the difference!!

Mike

I really was hoping that you would comment on my post about languages!!!

[Peter Fendrich]

Peter, is it possible for you to say how many copies of Alaric was downloaded so far?

I have no idea. Here is the statistics I get:

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Day Hits  Files Pages Visits  KBytes 
10    459   382   105     52    3013
11    598   481    94     48    3485
12   1350  1148   220     63    8194
13    681   558    96     46    4115
14    803   688   143     54    4748
15   5782  4593   676    228  225675


as you can see something happend the 15th but I can not see the number of downloads.
/Peter

[Peter Fendrich]

Hi Peter,

A logo in hope better by the specialists

Regards,
Patrick

Thank you!
I will add it to my collection of logos and upload them as well, later on

[Peter Fendrich]

Hello Peter,

Thanks for the new program. Any chance of a Mac OS X version?

I suppose that the way from microsoft c++ to mac is too long...

I tried with my ipod but gave up, so i think Mac have to wait for a while

[Daniel Shawul]

Thanks for the link!
I am at the early stages of developing a Go! playing program.
Now the move generation is almost done except for implementing some special Ko rules. I might have to rewrite everything once i think of a better board representation.

Before i look in to other's people work, i want to see how far i can go with the knowledge i have from chess. It seems that brute force is impossible with Go, so i am going to try a very selective search say considering only the best 25 moves out of hundreds!

Is there a Go forum where Go programmers frequent? Also is there
a computer Go tournament like WBEC. The only thing I can find are Go servers where you connect through internet. Luckily there is a Go text protocol (GTP) where i can do matches with GnuGo myself.

Thanks
Daniel

[Patrick Buchmann]

Hi Peter,

Alaric 0702 obtains a first rating of 2547 in the UEL

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Rank Name                    Ruel    +    -  games score oppo. draws
   1 Spike 1.2 Turin         2706   18   18  1141   71%  2545   31%
   2 Fruit 2.1               2645   13   13  2219   63%  2542   33%
   3 Naum 2.0                2621   21   21   750   58%  2560   37%
   4 Pharaon 3.5.1           2602   21   21   764   56%  2546   32%
   5 Glaurung 1.2.1          2595   18   18  1058   53%  2561   29%
   6 Ruffian 1.0.5           2566   11   11  3309   53%  2539   31%
   7 List 5.12               2564   11   11  3127   52%  2538   32%
   8 SlowChess Blitz WV2.1   2562   30   30   374   53%  2522   35%
   9 Alaric 0702             2547   64   60   128   75%  2306   17%
  10 Aristarch 4.50          2541   11   11  2857   52%  2515   29%
  11 SOS 5.1                 2516   13   13  2191   49%  2513   29%
  12 Colossus 2006f          2513   22   22   728   51%  2493   28%
  13 Zappa 1.1               2511   14   14  1882   49%  2509   28%
  14 Ktulu 4.2               2501   12   12  2622   48%  2504   26%
  15 Movei 0.08.403          2496   37   37   276   57%  2430   27%
  16 Booot 4.13.0            2495   45   45   196   63%  2373   25%
  17 AnMon 5.60              2488   19   19  1046   52%  2463   25%
  18 Ufim 8.02               2482   26   26   542   53%  2447   26%
  19 Tao 5.6                 2472   16   16  1528   51%  2450   23%
  20 Yace Paderborn          2463   14   14  1925   50%  2454   24%
  21 Pepito v1.59            2461   14   14  1958   53%  2428   27%
  22 Amyan 1.597             2432   17   17  1238   53%  2402   26%
  23 Arasan 9.5              2400   32   32   348   53%  2368   25%
  24 Snitch 1.6.2            2399   25   25   582   52%  2375   28%
  25 Twisted Logic 0.065e37  2390   32   32   392   57%  2322   15%
  26 Nejmet 3.07             2389   14   14  1820   50%  2379   26%
  27 Abrok 5.0               2379   14   14  1993   49%  2375   26%
  28 Dragon 4.6              2379   14   14  1787   50%  2376   27%
  29 Gaia 3.5                2377   23   23   730   53%  2347   21%
  30 Diablo 0.5.1            2367   27   27   478   52%  2351   29%
  31 Terra 3.4               2354   16   16  1502   49%  2358   23%
  32 Sjeng 12.13             2352   15   15  1683   50%  2346   23%
  33 Alfil 6.10              2350   35   35   290   49%  2358   28%
  34 Delphil 1.6c            2346   24   24   596   51%  2330   26%
  35 Muse 0.899b             2345   17   17  1311   53%  2321   24%
  36 Queen 3.09              2338   19   19  1017   53%  2305   25%
  37 Hermann 1.9             2327   27   27   482   50%  2322   23%
  38 Arion 1.7               2326   20   20   861   49%  2322   27%
  39 Patzer 3.80             2316   26   26   528   49%  2318   22%
  40 Aice 0.99.2             2306   25   25   572   48%  2312   22%
  41 Homer 1.1 beta3         2254   44   44   192   44%  2296   26%
  42 Ayito 0.2.994           2248   21   21   940   46%  2271   15%
  43 Tornado 1.0 Mainz       2229   32   32   390   47%  2248   21%
  44 Anechka 0.08            2221   27   28   523   41%  2293   18%
  45 LittleThought 1.00      2219   44   44   210   42%  2282   17%
  46 Hamsters 0.0.6          2203   31   31   379   51%  2196   21%
  47 GreKo 5.2               2201   48   49   178   40%  2290   18%
  48 Atlas 2.20              2199   30   30   430   50%  2194   17%
  49 AliChess 4.06           2186   35   35   306   48%  2202   25%
  50 Pupsi 0.17              2175   41   42   234   41%  2256   19%
  51 WJChess v1.64           2160   20   20   920   51%  2152   18%
  52 Madeleine 0.2           2149   20   20   983   50%  2144   14%
  53 Gibbon 2.31d            2138   43   44   216   40%  2229   20%
  54 BBChess 1.01            2110   39   40   268   40%  2200   15%
  55 Adam 3.1                2103   56   59   148   30%  2282   13%
  56 Matheus 2.3             2098   23   23   784   49%  2109   16%
  57 Monarch 1.7             2082   34   34   356   44%  2146   15%
  58 Lime 62                 2057   36   36   328   44%  2119   15%
  59 FireFly 2.2.0           2046   49   50   202   30%  2236   10%
  60 BigLion 2.23w           2025   33   33   366   39%  2120   16%
  61 DelphiMAX 2.9           2018   27   27   585   45%  2054   13%
  62 Smash 1.0.3             1998   44   44   244   39%  2116   15%
  63 RivalChess 1.18         1956   50   52   202   30%  2162   14%
  64 Feuerstein 0.4.4.2      1949   47   48   212   33%  2125   12%
  65 BiBiChess 0.5           1943   40   41   254   40%  2050   21%
  66 Clueless 1.3.5          1936   70   78   134   16%  2299    7%
  67 FreeChess 2.16e         1915   52   55   194   23%  2198   13%
  68 Alex 1.78               1890   53   54   190   34%  2074   12%
  69 Eagle 0.7.5             1871   48   49   217   39%  1985   11%
  70 Counter 0.1             1824   65   67   164   22%  2143   20%
  71 Simontacchi v1.81a      1804   47   47   233   54%  1782    5%
  72 AlChess 1.5b            1788   61   65   176   20%  2145   10%
  73 Iq23 003                1772   58   58   152   38%  1936   20%
  74 BikJump 1.1             1757   72   77   156   18%  2172    6%
  75 Roce 0.0350             1753   57   59   178   25%  2054   19%
  76 Pooky 2.7               1751   47   47   228   45%  1810   11%
  77 Philemon C              1679   54   54   177   41%  1820   17%
  78 Piranha 0.5             1645   42   42   301   42%  1749    4%
  79 ApilChess 1.05r1b       1633   69   71   152   26%  2011   12%
  80 Eden 0.0.11             1544   74   81   141   16%  2029    7%
  81 T.rex 1.8.5             1441   49   52   245   20%  1775    8%
  82 NSVChess 0.14           1214   85  104   175    6%  1894    2%

PGN on my homepage

Regards,
Patrick

[Vladimir Medvedev]

Sorry, I don't have a Go game collection yet. Also I set the computer level to 4 or 5. I guess thiat is weaker . Even with that settings I can't win all the time.

I'd recommend to start with at least 100 games on smaller board.
Free program Igowin is an excellent partner on 9x9 for all beginners (up to single-digit kyus).

A lot of games can be found at http://www.go4go.net/v2/ and at http://gobase.org