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

Author: Chris Taylor

Date: 10:22:35 06/19/00

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On June 18, 2000 at 16:51:24, Tomas Casanovas Martinez wrote:

>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.

I have had Hiarcs 6.0CB play againt SOS at 40mins 40 mins repeat with 40 mins
countdown at the end.  That comes to 2 hours if all the time is used?
SOS has a Celeron 500 128 meg ram Nimzo book.  Hiarcs 6 has AMD 450 32 meg ram,
and General.ctg
As it stands at the moment, SOS v Hiarcs 1-4, 3draws.............
I will leave it at least tonight. possibly tommorow?
Hiarcs 6 is in my opinion a dam good prog, and if SOS can win more it will show
it to be a nice little battler?  BTW, I like SOS, I have played it in a couple
of games and it wiped me away.  Nuff Said.....

Chris Taylor



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