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Subject: Re: M-Chess Pro7 : strength ??

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 12:44:53 12/25/97

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>I have all Mchess versions since 1,06 and with this last I have played
>extensively at 40 moves / 1 hour and my impression is that is a hell of
>strong. I am 2150 or something player and so I get points from almost
>every program, at least 15 to 20% of the time, but with MCP7 I have lost
>ALL the games. It has no mercy and works around incredible well fitted
>books. Nothing here is just piling lines, but lines tunned to unleash
>all the force of the engine. My guess is that in the next SSDF rating it
>will confirm to be once of the two strongerst engines available.

Hm. My results so far, especially against Nimzo98 are not that good.
In the moment I let Hiarcs6 play vs. Mchess7.
It is the first game and move 27. Hiarcs say -428 and Mchess is still in
book and has not computed much. Opening was b03 alekhine- four pawn's
attack.
I guess this first game is pretty worthless because it only shows me
something about the "beautiful" opening book instead of the strength of
the new engine.
But I let it run some more moves to see how deep the Mchess7 book-line
is.
Now it is the 29. move and Mchess STILL in book.

On which results or feelings do you extrapolate your :
Mchess7 will be one of the strongest engines sentence ?
If you want i can report more about my games.
In the moment the game is in move 37 and still mcp7 has NOT computed.
Those opening lines will - of course - help the program to be ranked
high in the ssdf-list ... :-)
I have nothing against a nice opening book. But - as this is the first
autoplayer game against a KNOWN opponent program, the way it develops is
not very amusing. I guess there is no doubt that THOSE lines can only
come into a book when autoplayer-results are dumped and merged into a
book.
Only hiarcs6 would have played this line this way, or ?
So those lines are specific. And they "work" only against hiarcs6.
As hiarcs6 is a good high ranked program, this would result in
decreasing of hiarcs6 rating and increasing of mcp7 rating.
I was the one who defended hiarcs6 against killer-book rumours.
I think mcp7 could be a strong chess program. I - on the other hand -
wonder if this is really necessary...

Here is the line so far...


[Event "60/60"]
[Site "k6/200"]
[Date "1997.12.25"]
[Round "1"]
[White "MCP7"]
[Black "HIARCS6"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.e4 Nf6 {H6: 01   1...Nf6 =    0}
2.e5 Nd5 {H6: 01   2...Nd5 =    0}
3.d4 d6 {H6: 01   3...d6 =    0}
4.c4 Nb6 {H6: 01   4...Nb6 =    0}
5.f4 dxe5 {H6: 01   5...dxe5 =    0}
6.fxe5 Nc6 {H6: 01   6...Nc6 =    0}
7.Be3 Bf5 {H6: 01   7...Bf5 =    0}
8.Nc3 e6 {H6: 01   8...e6 =    0}
9.Nf3 Qd7 {H6: 01   9...Qd7 =    0}
10.Be2 O-O-O {H6: 01  10...O-O-O =    0}
11.O-O Bg4 {H6: 01  11...Bg4 =    0}
12.c5 Nd5 {H6: 01  12...Nd5 =    0}
13.Nxd5 Qxd5 {H6: 01  13...Qxd5 =    0}
14.Ng5 Bxe2 {H6: 01  14...Bxe2 =    0}
15.Qxe2 Nxd4 {H6: 01  15...Nxd4 =    0}
16.Bxd4 Qxd4+ {H6: 01  16...Qxd4+ =    0}
17.Kh1 Qd2 {H6: 01  17...Qd2 =    0}
18.Qxd2 Rxd2 {H6: 01  18...Rxd2 =    0}
19.Rxf7 Bxc5 {H6: 01  19...Bxc5 =    0}
20.Nxe6 Bb6 {H6: 01  20...Bb6 =    0}
21.Nxg7 Bd4 {H6: 01  21...Bd4 =    0}
22.e6 Bxb2 {H6: 01  22...Bxb2 =    0}
23.Raf1 c5 {H6: 08  23...c5 e7 Bxg7 Rxg7 Re8 Rxh7 Kd7 Re1 Rxa2 Kg1 =
-7}
24.h4 Re2 {H6: 09  24...Re2 e7 Bxg7 Rxg7 Re8 Rxh7 R8xe7 Rxe7 Rxe7 Rc1 b6
g4 =
 -23}
25.Rb1 Be5 {H6: 09  25...Be5 Rfxb7 Rxa2 Nf5 Ra6 R7b5 Rxe6 Rxc5+ Kd8 Rxe5
Rxe5
Rb8+ Kc7 Rxh8 Rxf5 Rxh7+ Kb6 = -190}
26.Rfxb7 Rxa2 {H6: 09  26...Rxa2 e7 Ra4 g3 Rb4 e8=Q+ Rxe8 R7xb4 cxb4
Nxe8 Kd8
Rxb4 Kxe8 = -254}
27.Nf5 Ra6 {H6: 08  27...Ra6 R7b5 Ra1 Rxc5+ Kd8 Rxa1 = -428}
28.R7b5 Rc6 {H6: 09  28...Rc6 Ne7+ Kc7 Rb7+ Kd6 Rd1+ Bd4 Nxc6 Kxc6 Rxa7
Re8
e7 h5 Rc1 = -428}
29.Ne7+ Kc7 {H6: 09  29...Kc7 Ra5 Re8 Rxa7+ Kd6 Rbb7 Rxe7 Rxe7 Bf6 Rxh7
Kxe6
g4 = -431}
30.Rb7+ Kd6 {H6: 10  30...Kd6 Rd1+ Bd4 Nxc6 Kxc6 Rxa7 h5 Ra6+ Kd5 Rf1 c4
e7
Re8 Ra5 = -415}
31.Nxc6 Kxc6 {H6: 10  31...Kxc6 Rxa7 = -412}
32.Rxa7 Re8 {H6: 10  32...Re8 Rxh7 Rxe6 Ra7 Kd5 g4 Rg6 Rd1+ Bd4 g5 =
-414}
33.Rxh7 Rxe6 {H6: 10  33...Rxe6 g4 c4 Kg2 c3 Kf3 Bd6 Rc1 Rf6+ Ke2 Be5 =
-437}
34.g4 c4 {H6: 09  34...c4 g5 = -451}
35.Kg2 c3 {H6: 09  35...c3 Ra7 Kd5 h5 Re8 Rd1+ Ke6 Ra6+ Ke7 g5 Rf8 Rc6 =
-490}
36.Kf3 Rf6+ {H6: 09  36...Rf6+ Ke4 Bg3 Kd3 Rf3+ Kc2 Be5 g5 Rf2+ Kd3 =
-477}
37.Ke2 Rd6 {H6: 09  37...Rd6 Rd1 Rg6 Kf3 Rf6+ Ke4 Bf4 Kd3 Rg6 g5 Be5 =
-478}
38.Rd1 Rg6 {H6: 09  38...Rg6 g5 = -489}
 *
And Mchess7 computed the first time in the 38th move.




BTW: I am using 2x k6/200 with 60/60 time-control.
I am using /x mode for both programs.



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