Author: Mike CastaƱuela
Date: 07:18:29 01/02/99
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On January 02, 1999 at 09:45:18, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >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... Very interesting observation, in fact i think that since far years of G3 the engine "pure" improvement in general has been asyntothycal (almost). You said it first! (if at the end of tournament the established thing is fulfilled) > >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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