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Subject: Re: SOS vs Crafty

Author: Tomas Casanovas Martinez

Date: 10:00:24 06/24/00

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On June 24, 2000 at 09:27:37, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:

>I have been saying that the only "free" program that can match if not surpass
>Crafty in strength is most probably Rudolf Huber's SOS.  Having found a spot of
>free time I decided to try these two out.  Conditions for the first match:  my
>dual PII-400 running under Win 2000, ponder on, Junior 6 GUI, General.ctg,
>tablebases, game in 20, sudden death, twenty games altogether. Versions:  Crafty
>17.11 and SOS 3/2000. Result: 13-7 for SOS!
>
>PII, Blitz:20'  2000
>
>                  12345678901234567890
>1   SOS           1010½1111½½0111½½½10 13.0/20
>2   Crafty 17.11  0101½0000½½1000½½½01  7.0/20
>
>
>Second match: the same as above, except for the time controls:  this time it was
>only blitz (game in 5), thirty two games.  Result:  21-11 for SOS!
>
>PII, Blitz:5'  2000
>
>                  12345678901234567890123456789012
>1   SOS           11110½½0½111½1½1½101011½11000½11 21.0/32
>2   Crafty 17.11  00001½½1½000½0½0½010100½00111½00 11.0/32
>
>
>These results should be good pointers -- SOS seemst to be stronger than Crafty,
>perhaps at tournament time controls!  I can hardly wait for the SSDF to start
>testing SOS :)
>
>
>*** Djordje

Djordge,

These results are not at all a surprise for me. If you have read my previous
posts about testing SOS you will have observed that this program (3/2000) is
able to destroy Fritz6a  +3  =1  -0 , that is 3,5-0,5 (!!) in long 'almost
tournament time' games. I think that that this SOS is currently one of the top
programmes in the world, including all the commercials. Perhaps the problem is
that is has been almost unkonwn being one of the 'Young Talents'... ;-)

Regards,

Tom.



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