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Also the 7P Database is free for all. The problem is the distribution, as it is 30 GByte. There are some options for this, like uploading this to a cloud based service (and if we wait a little than also 30 GByte is for free). If I remember well the 7P Database from Michel is much smaller, I don't k...

Nice to have this tournament played by you. Congratulations to Ed!

One surprise to me is the still high result of Truus even though it is using only 1 cpu core rather than 2 for the newer programs.

The games between the top 5 programs all ended in draw...

Hope to see you next tournament

For 2014, while i still have some ideas and will implement these, this will be a busy year and i will spend a bit less time on dragon.

This will also allow me to run the machine learning capabilities in dragon with more CPU time and resources.

Michel

Michel, congratulations with your tournament victory. Could you post some details regarding (if any) improvements of the Dragon 2013 version, compared with last year? Bert Thanks. In 2012 dragon was pretty strong already, but the 2013 version has many improvements over it: - This year the transitio...

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Hi Michel, i have preoccupation, i want please your help First, i want to know if it is possible to have the help file of Dragon The second is that, the dxp games that Dragon played against Kingsrow was played by the "Externe engine", which is no on our Dragon.Perhaps that it is more stronger than ...

Hi Bert and others programmers, i have a question, what is the importance of Nodes/s, I see that Dragon sometime 0.5M/s. I see also that it have almost 5 move of advance on Dam 2.2 when they play the dxp games. Thanks But nodes/second and depth are a bit arbitrary measures. Within one program they ...

I played an overnight match with the downloadable version (4.3beta1) of dragon against Kingsrow Settings: 1 minute per game on a 2 core 2.1 Ghz machine with 8 GB ram. 64 bit windows 7. endgame databases limited to 6 pieces Kingsrow hashtable: 256 Mb, endgame cache size 6931 Mb Dragon hashtable: 128 ...

Oops, url is:
http://mdgsoft.home.xs4all.nl/draughts/ ... 3beta1.msi

Michel, thanks for sharing. I guess that you might be right (based on other communication which we had). Could you post in this forum games and/or match results (and or games) which could underpin your (likely valid) claim? Next to that I assume that the download version is not as strong as your to...

There is beta version of dragon draughts 4.3 available for download. A lot of progress has been made on increasing dragon's strength. Changes: engine: * bug-fixes for multi core machines (occasionally dragon played a random move) * improved database caching * enhanced time control * various improvem...

Hi Michel, thank again for Dragon 4.2. (forgive my bad english) Just a suggestion for a litlle commodity for using Dragon; I mean, for example with Dam 2.2, Truus or Aurora Borealis, when you want to play the move 1.35 -30, you click only on the piece 35 and the piece move to 30 because it is the o...

Hi Michel, just a question about the opening book of Dragon 4.2. What is the difference beetwen the old and the new Dragon opening book? on what critera the new opening book, automatically generated, is based on? Thank Catherine. The old book was based on human games. The new book is generated by a...

Hi Michel, thank again for Dragon 4.2. (forgive my bad english) Just a suggestion for a litlle commodity for using Dragon; I mean, for example with Dam 2.2, Truus or Aurora Borealis, when you want to play the move 1.35 -30, you click only on the piece 35 and the piece move to 30 because it is the o...

As I was testing an updated version of kingsrow for release, I ran a dxp match of 3-move openings against the new dragon. Dragon has been getting stronger with the last few releases, and though it didn't come out ahead in this match, it was a lot closer than the matches from a year ago. Kingsrow 1....