Glaurung 1.0.1 (sigh)
Posted: 13 Jan 2006, 23:30
There are few things which are more embarassing than working one and a half year on a program before finally releasing a 1.0 version, and then discover two elementary bugs less than 24 hours after the release. Sad to say, this is exactly what has happened with Glaurung 1.0. My excuse is that I really wanted to have the new version ready in time for the 12th edition of WBEC.
I now have a new version, 1.0.1, which fixes the following two bugs:
As an extra bonus, there is also one added future: A very simple form of positional learning (disabled by default). The point of this feature is not to increase the playing strength. Indeed, I think it has no measurable effect at all when playing games. The point is that it could be useful when using the program for interactive analysis. The feature is not very thoroughly tested, and I am not yet sure how well it works.
Those of you who have started running tests with Glaurung 1.0, don't bother to start all over (even if you used Static pruning depth = 1). Just replace 1.0 with 1.0.1, and let 1.0.1 keep the results and ratings of 1.0.
Source code and binaries for Linux and OS X can be found on my home page. A Windows binary will be added later.
I apologise for the inconvenience, and I hope that 1.0.1 will be the last Glaurung version for a while.
Tord
I now have a new version, 1.0.1, which fixes the following two bugs:
- The default value of the "Static pruning depth" parameter is now 2, like it was supposed to be.
- Glaurung now always uses a symmetric evaluation in analysis mode. This was also supposed to work in 1.0, but it didn't.
As an extra bonus, there is also one added future: A very simple form of positional learning (disabled by default). The point of this feature is not to increase the playing strength. Indeed, I think it has no measurable effect at all when playing games. The point is that it could be useful when using the program for interactive analysis. The feature is not very thoroughly tested, and I am not yet sure how well it works.
Those of you who have started running tests with Glaurung 1.0, don't bother to start all over (even if you used Static pruning depth = 1). Just replace 1.0 with 1.0.1, and let 1.0.1 keep the results and ratings of 1.0.
Source code and binaries for Linux and OS X can be found on my home page. A Windows binary will be added later.
I apologise for the inconvenience, and I hope that 1.0.1 will be the last Glaurung version for a while.
Tord