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Subject: Re: SOS vs Crafty

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 10:27:41 06/24/00

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On June 24, 2000 at 13:00:24, Tomas Casanovas Martinez wrote:

>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.

If that is the case can you take the time and test SOS vs Fritz 6a in a mini
match of 30 games in G/60 and post the result to us in 3 days.

Pichard.



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