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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