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Subject: Re: Blitz Tourney 5/3 40 rounds and 40'/40 Tourney

Author: Wayne Lowrance

Date: 16:53:30 10/23/00

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On October 23, 2000 at 19:37:48, Chessfun wrote:

>On October 23, 2000 at 19:24:33, Wayne Lowrance wrote:
>
>>On October 23, 2000 at 19:05:38, Wayne Lowrance wrote:
>>
>>>On October 23, 2000 at 18:47:49, Chessfun wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>Hi all,
>>>>       The last few days I have had my computers running a blitz
>>>>tourney 40 rounds prior to beginning a 40'/40 tourney. As the 40
>>>>rounds take about 8 hours that should produce about 3 complete matches
>>>>per day. The 40'/40 tourney will be 6 rounds.
>>>>
>>>>Blitz 5 mins 3 inc side autoplayed on Two Cel 433's 48 Mb hash.
>>>>CB programs books optimized. Gandalf will run from Winboard.
>>>>
>>>>Competing;
>>>>Gambit 1.0
>>>>Tiger 13.0
>>>>Fritz 6a
>>>>Junior 6a
>>>>Hiarcs 7.32
>>>>Gandalf_432f
>>>>Nimzo 8
>>>>Shredder 4
>>>>
>>>>Current completed match scores;
>>>>Gambit 1.0    +13 -11 =16
>>>>Fritz 6a      +11 -13 =16
>>>>
>>>>Tiger 13.0    +14 -11 =15
>>>>Fritz 6a      +11 -14 =15
>>>>
>>>>Tiger 13.0    +20  -7 =13
>>>>Hiarcs 7.32    +7 -20 =13
>>>>
>>>>In process
>>>>Gambit 1.0    +12  -4 =11
>>>>Hiarcs 7.32    +4 -12 =11
>>>>
>>>>Next up
>>>>Fritz 6a
>>>>Hiarcs 7.32
>>>>
>>>>I am moving Wednesday so will only get to read tonight prior to unplugging
>>>>my computers, suggestions for additional programs appreciated.
>>>>As I'm not sure how long I'll be offline for.
>>>>
>>>>Sarah.
>>>
>>>Very nice Sarah. I was hoping someone would run such a tourney.
>>>
>>>Thank you
>>>
>>>Wayne
>>
>>It looks like GT & T13 are gonna have a donny brook shoot out. Who u think will
>>prevail ?
>>
>>Wayne
>
>Hard to say. Prior to beginning I expected both Tiger 13.0 and Gambit 1.0
>to score better against Fritz 6a as results posted at the beta forum indicated
>such. Now I think depending on how else Fritz scores it could win but having
>both Gambit and Tiger crush Hiarcs by large scores it won't be easy.
>
>Also Junior6a as yet hasn't played and during the beta period I only played
>about 10 games with it and Tiger 13.0 at 5/0 (closest time) which was split.
>So Junior 6a has chances. I'm not sure how it also will fair against Hiarcs.
>
>Shredder 4, I personally don't think stands much chance at least by my own
>testing at fast time controls during the beta period.
>
>Gandalf is an unknown for me but from reading posts here it will fair better in
>the 40'/40 than at 5' 3". Though there are a number of Gandalf's at ICC playing
>5/3 and scoring well.
>
>Nimzo typically is not a known blitzer and will likely do better at 40'/40.
>
>My opinion is Tiger is stronger at Blitz than Gambit but that isn't based
>on enough games to qualify. Each program here will play 280 games so it should
>give some idea.
>
>Sarah.

Thak you

Wayne




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