Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 13:11:18 12/21/01
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On December 21, 2001 at 12:51:59, Carmelo Calzerano wrote: >On December 21, 2001 at 05:23:50, Will Singleton wrote: > >>Thanh Nha Duong (IM) just played 43 straight games of 3 2 blitz vs Leila >>(squirtle) on ICC. The first game started at 00:41 server time, and the match >>ended at 04:43. Four hours of continuous blitz chess against a strong program >>running on an AMD 1900+. >> >>Results: Leila 29 wins, 10 losses, 4 draws. >>Start rating: Leila 2772 DuongThanh 2259 >>End Rating: Leila 2597 DuongThanh 2434 >> >>DT played anti-computer chess, winning with a combination of blocked positions >>and kside attacks. Leila didn't quite know how to counter. >> >>Quite interesting. I think other top amateurs would do better than Leila here. >>Something for her author to work on. > >You are right, definitely. >Leila has no anti-human code at all; moreover, it uses a very >poor (and perhaps buggy) kingsafety evaluation. There is a lot >of room for improvements here ;-) > >If you have the games against DuongThanh or other strong human >players, please send me. It's the first match Leila played against >an IM AFAIK, since it has only been tested against programs; and >I'm sure I will find tons of useful info. > >Thanks, >Carmelo To get the games merly log on to the ICC and type search squirtle DuongThanh This will return all 43 games which you can look at online or have the ICC mail to you in PGN format. Sadly you will need to manually mail each one though :).
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