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Subject: Re: My Pick for Strongest Amateur Program ("SlowChess!!!!!!) Commercial?

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 07:04:06 01/30/04

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On January 30, 2004 at 09:47:34, Uri Blass wrote:

>On January 30, 2004 at 09:04:27, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>
>>On January 30, 2004 at 02:14:05, Nolan Denson wrote:
>>
>>>Guys i need to let you all know there is a new King on the horizon.  I have
>>>never seen a program play so well.  I was playing on ICC with a version of
>>>Pepito .. Its was basically beating almost all the programs it faced until i
>>>played against a program called SlowChess.  This program easily beat Pepito 3
>>>games in a row.  But you may be saying to yourself but Pepito isn't very strong
>>>... well up until that point it was beating a few of the commercial programs ...
>>>so i decided .. to go get this slowchess program .. i loaded it up and Wow .. it
>>>is super super strong. SlowChess is being played by Deuteronomy
>>>
>>>Check out the Game Below .. you will see the power of this Program. I have never
>>>seen a program play so well.
>>>
>>>Dhaka (2666) vs. DEUTERONOMY (2622) --- 2004.01.30 01:49:30
>>>Rated Blitz match, initial time: 5 minutes, increment: 5 seconds
>>>
>>>  1.  e4       (0:00)    e5       (0:00)
>>>  2.  Nc3      (0:00)    Nf6      (0:00)
>>>  3.  Nf3      (0:00)    Nc6      (0:00)
>>>  4.  d4       (0:00)    exd4     (0:00)
>>>  5.  Nd5      (0:00)    Nxe4     (0:13)
>>>  6.  Bc4      (0:00)    Bb4+     (0:13)
>>>  7.  c3       (0:00)    dxc3     (0:13)
>>>  8.  O-O      (0:00)    O-O      (0:13)
>>>  9.  Qb3      (0:00)    cxb2     (0:09)
>>> 10.  Bxb2     (0:00)    Ba5      (0:13)
>>> 11.  Qc2      (0:00)    Nc5      (0:13)
>>> 12.  Nf4      (0:42)    d6       (0:00)
>>> 13.  h4       (0:31)    Ne7      (0:00)
>>> 14.  Nh5      (0:13)    Bf5      (0:00)
>>> 15.  Qc1      (0:21)    b5       (0:12)
>>> 16.  Bxg7     (0:06)    bxc4     (0:06)
>>> 17.  Qh6      (0:05)    f6       (0:07)
>>> 18.  Nxf6+    (0:11)    Rxf6     (0:01)
>>> 19.  Bxf6     (0:15)    Ne6      (0:00)
>>> 20.  g4       (0:16)    Bd3      (0:00)
>>> 21.  Ng5      (0:48)    Qf8      (0:00)
>>> 22.  Qxf8+    (0:14)    Nxf8     (0:00)
>>> 23.  Bxe7     (0:09)    Ng6      (0:04)
>>> 24.  Bf6      (0:10)    Rf8      (0:04)
>>> 25.  Bb2      (0:05)    c3       (0:10)
>>> 26.  Ba3      (0:04)    Bxf1     (0:14)
>>> 27.  Rxf1     (0:00)    Rf4      (0:14)
>>> 28.  f3       (0:14)    Ra4      (0:00)
>>> 29.  Bc1      (0:10)    Rxa2     (0:05)
>>> 30.  Ne4      (0:08)    Nxh4     (0:12)
>>> 31.  Bg5      (0:02)    Ng6      (0:08)
>>> 32.  Kh1      (0:02)    c2       (0:07)
>>> 33.  Ng3      (0:08)    Ne5      (0:10)
>>> 34.  Ne2      (0:04)    d5       (0:06)
>>> 35.  Bf6      (0:21)    Nd3      (0:09)
>>> 36.  Bg5      (0:43)    Rb2      (0:00)
>>> 37.  Nd4      (0:10)    Bb6      (0:10)
>>> 38.  Ne2      (0:01)    Nf2+     (0:09)
>>> 39.  Kg2      (0:02)    c1=N     (0:10)
>>> 40.  Rxc1     (0:12)    Rxe2     (0:10)
>>> 41.  Kf1      (0:01)    Rb2      (0:09)
>>> 42.  Re1      (0:07)    h5       (0:03)
>>> 43.  Re8+     (0:06)    Kf7      (0:04)
>>> 44.  Re7+     (0:05)    Kg6      (0:05)
>>> 45.  Bf4      (0:09)    hxg4     (0:11)
>>> 46.  fxg4     (0:07)    d4       (0:03)
>>> 47.  Re6+     (0:27)    Kf7      (0:00)
>>> 48.  Re2      (0:06)    Rxe2     (0:05)
>>> 49.  Kxe2     (0:32)    Nxg4     (0:00)
>>> 50.  Bd2      (0:07)    c5       (0:11)
>>> 51.  Kd3      (0:00)    Ke6      (0:11)
>>> 52.  Be1      (0:25)
>>>       {White resigns} 0-1
>>>Statistics for SlowChess2(C)         On for: 2:07     Idle:   10
>>>
>>>          rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
>>>Bullet      2584        498    78    58   634   2711 (24-Jan-2004)
>>>Blitz       2719        734   164   114  1012   2832 (11-Jan-2004)
>>>Standard    2536        560   208   149   917   2576 (13-Jan-2004)
>>>
>>> 1: Hardware: Athlon 64 FX   96 MB Hash
>>> 2: Software: SlowChess v2.89b
>>> 3:
>>> 4: CPU is also used to run other programs at the same time.
>>> 5: http://www.3dkingdoms.com/chess/slow.htm
>>> 6: Every once in a while accepts or offers draws in the endgame.
>>> 7: I'd like to thank titled players for playing SlowChess.
>>>
>>> Email  : ogre@3dkingdoms.com
>>
>>I've also noticed that Slowchess is pretty strong.
>>
>>Slowchess is what you get when you combine large spatial control terms, pretty
>>good kingsafety, and lot of extensions.  Sort of like Chessmaster, I think.
>>
>>anthony
>
>As far as I know slowchess is a fast searcher.
>The name is only that it was originally slow.
>
>It is not something like chessmaster.
>
>Uri

Does Chessmaster have large spatial control terms? Yes.
Does Chessmaster have good kingsafety? Yes.
Does Chessmaster have a lot of extensions? Yes.

I don't think I mentioned nps.

anthony



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