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Subject: Re: Tournament update

Author: Dan Kiski

Date: 08:16:20 01/02/99

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On January 02, 1999 at 10:41:12, José Berdiñas Bonefua wrote:

>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...
>>
>>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
>En la ventana de autoplayer de Genius 6 donde dice timeout hours ,  mins ;
>en realidad debería decir minutos y segundos. Creo que es por esto que el
>autoplayer se detiene .
>
>
>José
>
>
>>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

Junior's score should be 50.5 as a result of geting 3.5 pts from this match.




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