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

Author: Tomas Casanovas Martinez

Date: 13:51:24 06/18/00

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On June 18, 2000 at 16:23:53, Chris Taylor wrote:

>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

Hi, Chris!

It is surprising to observe the high 'volatility' of CB Young Talents results. I
don't know whether my computer has something different (?) to make SOS such a
strong program ;-). It would be very interesting to test SOS against other
programmes at long time levels. My first results at longer time controls against
top commercial programmes 'running the gauntlet' are impressive. (See my post
above).

Regards,

Tom.



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