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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