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Subject: Tournament update

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 06:45:18 01/02/99


Genius 6 beat Junior 5 6.5-3.5. In these games I didn't see at all the old
boring, passive playing style of Genius 5. Quite the contrary, in fact.
Speculation: if Genius 6, with basically the same 16 bit engine of Genius 3/4/5
but slowed down by running in a 32 bit environment, ends up at or near the top
of this tournament, would it mean that the state of the art in chess engines
didn't do much progress at all in the last 4 years? It may be a way to find out
if the climbing in the Elo list has been due to genuine engine improvement or to
learners, book preparation, bigger hashtables...

Next match, Genius 6 - Hiarcs 7. Genius' autoplayer doesn't seem to work as
master. In this case I will have to play all games of Genius 6 with white pieces
manually against H7, M8, Tiger, R10 and S3. Depressing.

Two PII-400/256, auto232, 40 moves in 40 minutes.

        J5   H7    M8   T11   F532  F5   R10  N99a   Cr   G6   TOTAL    Elo
J5     ---   6     6    6.5   5.5  4.5    5    5    8.5  3.5  47.0/90    38
H7(*)   4   ---   3.5    4    4.5   8     7   6.5   7.5       45.0/80    26
M8      4   6.5   ---   5.5   3.5   5    5.5   7     7        44.0/80    18
Ti     3.5   6    4.5   ---    5   5.5    6   6.5    7        44.0/80    18
F532   4.5  5.5   6.5    5    ---  4.5    4    5     7        42.0/80     2
F5     5.5   2     5    4.5   5.5  ---   4.5   4     8        39.0/80   -22
R10     5    3    4.5    4     6   5.5   ---   5    5.5       38.5/80   -26
N99a    5   3.5    3    3.5    5    6     5   ---   6.5       37.5/80   -33
CR(**) 1.5  2.5    3     3     3    2    4.5  3.5   ---       23.0/80  -148
G6     6.5                                               ---   6.5/10   137

(*) A beta version of Hiarcs 7 with an alpha opening book played in the matches
against Junior 5, Tiger 11.7.5, Mchess 8, Rebel 10 and Fritz 5.

(**) Crafty 16.1 is playing as an engine for Nimzo 99. Because of a bug in the
interface, Crafty clears its hashtables after every move it makes and therefore
it is playing handicapped in this tournament.

Enrique



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