---------------------update july 1994 stello v1.1----------------------- By popular demand (my own 8-) i have put the dialogs in windows. This means, that the program dosent hog the computer when showing dialogs. A side effect is that under normal tos it almost feels like multitasking, as the computer continues thinking while you are using the dialogs. You can now have 3D activator and indicator buttons under normal tos, 3D checkboxes and niceline menus. -----------Update: Match against Thor v 3.36. (july 1994)--------------- The last match was against thor v 3.33, and in the meantime the authors behind Thor have improved the program. As far as i can see it searches somewhat faster, and it dosen't anymore occasionally make a bad move. Furthermore the endgameroutine is 2-3 times faster. I made the same match with the same 10 different openings. The new result was. Stello Thor 3.36 Thor 3.36 Stello | Black | p | White | p | Black | p | White | p | --------------------------------------------------------------- game 1. | 52 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 32 |1/2| 32 |1/2| game 2. | 46 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 32 |1/2| 32 |1/2| game 3. | 24 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 21 | 0 | 43 | 1 | game 4. | 55 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 34 | 1 | game 5. | 27 | 0 | 37 | 1 | 23 | 0 | 41 | 1 | game 6. | 32 |1/2| 32 |1/2| 19 | 0 | 45 | 1 | game 7. | 26 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 21 | 0 | 43 | 1 | game 8. | 35 | 1 | 29 | 0 | 52 | 1 | 12 | 0 | game 9. | 32 |1/2| 32 |1/2| 31 | 0 | 33 | 1 | game 10. | 39 | 1 | 25 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 36 | 1 | -------------------------------------------------------------- Total: | 36.8 | 6 | 27.2 | 4 | 28.9 | 2 | 35.1 | 8 | Stello Thor 3.36 Discs p Discs P Total: | 36.0 | 14 | 28.0 | 6 | As we can see, the outcome in points is almost identical to the last testmatch. Stello wins 14-6. If we analyse the games in more detail we can see that it now is a much closer match. The disc differential now is 8 discs, where it in the last match was 17 discs. We can see that Thor really has improved. Maybe i should start implementing some of those new ideas that i have been thinking about. -----------------------------Update end---------------------------------