Author: James T. Walker
Date: 11:31:26 09/02/99
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On September 02, 1999 at 05:00:36, blass uri wrote: >On September 01, 1999 at 18:26:48, Heiko Mikala wrote: > >>On August 31, 1999 at 13:17:43, eric guttenberg wrote: >> >>>When you say CSTal has no problem withH7.32 at 40/2, do you mean that >>>CSTal has a plus score against H7.32 over a significant number of games >>>or that CSTal wins occasionally? Can you give us some numbers? >> >>I don't have any 40/2 games, but two months ago I played a series of games in 60 >>minutes for the whole game per side. The games were played on two Cyrix >>MII-PR300 computers with pondering enabled of course. >> >>Before I show you the data, I would like to say that I love CSTal. I have seen >>many absolutely brilliant games played by it, and I'm often stunned by it's >>brilliant king-attacks. Sometimes, against strong opponents, these attacks don't >>work, but if they work - wow! >> >>I also played some games with my own chess program against CSTal at FICS and >>these games were some of the most exciting games I have seen. Although my >>program could also win 1 or 2 games, most of the time it was smashed by CSTal. >>And, CSTal often saw itself in big plus long before my own program had the >>slightest idea of what was going on (a king-attack was going on of course ;-). >> >> >>Just one more thing: I didn't play the CSTal-Hiarcs games for "bean counting" as >>some might say, but because I had both programs new and wanted to see some >>exciting games played by two very unconventional chess-programs. >> >>The next thing I want to do (planned for a very long time, but didn't find the >>time yet) is a match CSTal 2 - MChess Pro 8. This is gonna be *very* exciting, >>because MChess Pro can play extremely exciting and unconventional chess too (and >>it is still my favourite chess program). I'm looking forward to it :)) >> >> >>O.k., here we go: >> >> >>game/60', 2 * Cyrix/IBM 6x86MX PR-300 >> >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>1 Hiarcs 7.32 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 13.0/17 >>2 CSTal II ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4.0/17 > >I am interested to see the result between hiarcs and tal from the same openings >at 40 moves /2 hours. > >Uri Hello Uri, I will not use the same openings since I have no way to force CSTal-2 to play certain openings using auto232. I have started a series of games at 40/2 between CSTal-2(2.03) vs Crafty 16.15. The first game was a draw. I will post the games or send them to you if you are interested. Jim Walker
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