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Subject: Re: Tournament update

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 04:07:30 01/03/99

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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...
>
>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

Would be nice to see Shredder3 in your tournament...

Stefan



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