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Subject: Re: Results from the WT-5 tournament

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:08:33 08/28/99

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On August 28, 1999 at 11:21:22, Frank Quisinsky wrote:

>Hello,
>
>the result from the WT-5 tournament from Kai Skibbe, Christian Koch and me !
>
>40 moves in 40 minutes,
>AMD K6-2 333 MHz, Pentium III 504 MHz and AMD K6-3 450 MHz,
>~ 32 MB for Hash-Tables,
>Ponder = Off
>
>Crafty, Voyager, Comet, Patzer, Bringer using 4-pieces Nalimov Table-Base
>Gromit and AnMon using 4-pieces Edwards Table-Bases !

You do know that 'voyager' is a dead copy of crafty, right?  With just the
key character constants converted to German.  This was revealed several months
ago and there was _zero_ doubt as I went thru the executable carefully and
posted a lot of what I found, just to make it clear...





>
>IMPORTANT NOTE
>Zarkov, Nimzo, Voyager, LGoliath, Patzer, Francesca und LambChop
>are versions of programs in development and have been offered by
>authors to Kai, Chritian and Frank only for the explicit purpose
>of organizing this tournament. THEY ARE NOT PUBLICLY AVAILABLE !
>
>01. Nimzo 2000a               102,0/144   70,83%   2572 ELO
>02. Zarkov 4.5h                95,5/144   66,32%   2538 ELO
>03. Crafty 16.11-16.15         92,0/144   63,89%   2521 ELO
>04. Voyager 5.08-6.01          89,5/144   62,15%   2510 ELO
>05. LGoliath 2000              75,5/144   52,43%   2445 ELO
>06. Comet B.04-B.05            75,0/144   52,08%   2444 ELO
>07. AnMon 4.26-4.27            70,0/144   48,61%   2421 ELO
>08. Patzer 3.0                 64,0/144   44,44%   2394 ELO
>09. Phalanx 21                 60,0/144   41,67%   2375 ELO
>10. Francesca 0.68d-0.70       58,5/144   40,63%   2369 ELO
>11. Gromit 2.20                58,0/144   40,28%   2367 ELO
>12. LambChop 8.2               51,0/144   35,42%   2333 ELO
>13. Bringer 1.4-1.5            45,0/144   31,25%   2303 ELO
>
>You can download the 936 games under ...
>http://members.xoom.com/VolkerPi/
>
>Nimzo 2000a play very strong and this version is more than 100 ELO better than
>Nimzo 2000 ! Voyager win the matches against Nimzo 2000a, Zarkov 4.5h and Crafty
>16.15 with 6,5 : 5,5 lose against Gromit with 5,0 : 7,0 !
>
>LambChop 8.2 play more than 100 ELO better than LambChop 7.1, this is very
>great, LambChop play an interesting chess, I like this program (and AnMon :-)
>and the others)
>
>For the new chess program Bringer ist this result sensational ! LGoliath 2000
>play ca. 75-100 ELO better than LGoliath Gold 2.05 !
>
>From Francesca we become in the last round an update. This new Francesca version
>play stronger. OK, when we play the next tournament, but not in the next 3-4
>months I think !
>
>The Crafty versions play an fantastic chess and I can not understand that Dr.
>Robert Hyatt say that the time managment from Crafty is bad when Crafty play on
>one machine. I can not see that. Crafty play under Winboard (without ponder)
>matches with a good time control and blitz not the last moves before the time
>control ending !!!
>
>In 620 games with Crafty (see the ELO-Ranglist from Kai Skibbe, Christian Koch
>and me under ... http://members.xoom.com/VolkerPi/ I see (when i looked the
>games, not all games) not problems with the time-managmant from Crafty on one
>PC.
>
>In 4550 games under Winboard we have 30 games with time problems, but the most
>of this 30 games are problems from the engines, not problems with time controls.
>
>We have all log files from Crafty (WT-5) and I looked this and see not problems
>with the time control, sorry Bob (great results from Crafty) !
>
>OK, thanks for the programmer which give your programs for this tournament and
>sorry for my bad english.
>
>Kind regards
>Frank



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