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Subject: Re: Testing SOS (Chessbase engine) = Extremely strong!!

Author: Chris Taylor

Date: 13:23:53 06/18/00

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On June 18, 2000 at 08:00:48, Tomas Casanovas Martinez wrote:

>In the last two months I have been testing the CB new Young Talents. I have
>found there an incredibly strong program = SOS. Look at this results and make
>your own opinion.
>
>All the Tournaments below played in CB Fritz 6 environment, with standard
>opening books, in a Petium 400, 256 Meg. RAM.
>
>Blitz Games.
>
>Tournament 1 - Young 052000-4 - Blitz 25 minutes per game.(Posted here some
>weeks ago. Only repeated to get an overall picture of SOS strength at different
>time levels).
>
>1.- Junior 6.0a   13,0/18
>2.- Fritz 6a      12,0/18
>3.- Hiarcs 7.32   11,5/18
>4.- SOS           11,0/18
>5.- Crafty 16.18   8,5/18
>6.- Nimzo 7.32     8,0/18
>7.- Gromit 3.1     8,0/18
>8.- Ikarus V018    7,0/18
>9.- Phalanx XXII   6,5/18
>10.-Patzer 3.11    4,5/18
>
>Tournament 2 - Sarisari 1 - Blitz 25 minutes per game.
>
>1.- Deep Junior 6.0  7,0/10
>2.- Fritz 6a         6,5/10
>3.- SOS              5,5/10
>4.- Crafty 17.10     4,0/10
>5.- Anmon 507        4,0/10
>6.- LGoliath2000V27  3,0/10
>
>Tournament 3 - Young 06 2000 -4  - Mid-time level: 30min/40 moves + 15 min/20
>moves + 15 min. finish.
>
>1.- SOS              13,0/18
>2.- Anmon 507        10,5/18
>3.- Crafty 17.10     10,0/18
>4.- Patzer 3.11      10,0/18
>5.- Phalanx XXII      9,5/18
>6-  LGoliath2000-2    8,5/18
>7.- Comet B-20        8,5/18
>8.- Ikarus            8,0/18
>9.- Gromit 3.1        8,0/18
>10.-Exchess3.11       4,0/18
>
>Tournament 4 - New WB 3 - Mid-time level: 20 min. 40 moves + 20 min. 40 moves +
>10 min. finish.
>
>1.- SOS               7,5/10
>2.- Goliath Light     7,0/10
>3.- AnMon 507         4,5/10
>4.- Phalanx XXII      4,5/10
>5.- LG20000V27        4,0/10
>6.- AnMon 509         2,5/10
>
>It is clear that SOS performance at blitz and medium-time level is splendid. It
>is only beated by the 'top 5' CB programmes. But the surprise doesn't finish
>here. I will post later the results of my 'run the gauntlet' test at 'almost
>standard' tournament time level against four of the top programmes in the world.
>Don't miss it!.
>
>Regards,
>
>Tom


Here below, the results of a Young Talents bash, showing SOS, and a couple of
others.  I agree it is a good engine!  This was 2 a comp event @ 40 mins each
prog and 9 games per pair.



    Program                   Score     %    Av.Op.  Elo    +   -    Draws

  1 Crafty 17.10          :  42.0/ 63  66.7   2485   2605   72  82   28.6 %
  2 Gromit 3.1            :  33.5/ 63  53.2   2497   2519   86  68   30.2 %
  3 Ikarus V0.18          :  33.5/ 63  53.2   2497   2519   86  68   30.2 %
  4 SOS                   :  33.0/ 63  52.4   2498   2514   87  66   31.7 %
  5 Phalanx XXII          :  31.0/ 63  49.2   2501   2495   67  89   28.6 %
  6 Comet B20             :  29.5/ 63  46.8   2503   2481   68  86   30.2 %
  7 Goliath Light         :  28.0/ 63  44.4   2505   2466   68  83   31.7 %
  8 AnMon 5.07            :  21.5/ 63  34.1   2514   2400   76  72   33.3 %


Guess I will match SOS at longer time controls, just to see what happens?


Chris Taylor



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