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Subject: Re: 24 participants computer-chess tournament in germany !

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 13:39:08 11/22/97

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On November 22, 1997 at 16:16:02, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>Final standings (after 7 rounds)/ Endstand (nach Runde 7):
>1.Shredder2.0			6.5
>2.Rebel7	[k6/225]	5
>3.Fritz5			5
>4.Virtual Chess1		5
>5.Rebel9			4.5
>6.Nimzo3.5			4.5
>7.CM4000			4
>8.Nimzo98			4
>9.Hiarcs6 MAC		        4
>10.TASCR30 2.5		        4
>11.Genius5 DOS		        3.5
>12.The King 2.54		3.5
>13.CSTal			3.5
>14.Scratch			3.5
>15.CM5000			3.5
>16.Rebel7	[k6/233]	3.5
>17.Milobarus			3
>18.Berlin 68020  		3
>19.MchessPro6	        	2.5
>20.TASCR30 2.2   		2.5
>21.SargonV			2
>22.Wchess			2
>23.Genius London 68030  	1.5
>24.Diogenes			0

Obviously I am very pleased to read this as I didn't know
that Shredder was competing there :-)

>So Shredder is the winner. Best wishes to Stefan !! The next editorial
>in CSS will hopefully not
>claim that shredder is not worth buying it :-)
>Karsten wanted to say that Shredder is very very strong in playing the
>endgame. He said: you
>don't have to care if Shredder2 has a pawn less, he will turn the game
>into a win or a draw.
>In the 6th round Shredder killed Nimzo98.
>We will get the games later. Maybe Monday.
>What a pity that Virtual2 was not fast enough released. But anyway,
>Virtual1 did also a good job.
>Karsten said they tested the MAC-Hiarcs. It was very very fast, faster
>than a Pentium2/266 MMX
>machine !! But the limited Hash-Tables of 3 MByte were not that optimal,
>he said.
>In this tournament Fritz5 did a better job ! (Best wishes to ChessBase
>:-)
>(BTW: Fritz5 had 51 or 58 MB Hash-Tables !)
>
>The results of Rebel9 and Rebel7 are not much different.
>Karsten told something that CSTal had problems with the book. In one
>game it came out of the
>book after 34 moves and it was an  endgame position and although it said
>+3 it did not win it.
>In another position it came out of the book into a lost position. I
>think we have to wait for the
>game-scores. We can put them here in PGN if you want.

I am very curious to see the games. Could you please post at least
some of them here.

Stefan



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