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

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 17:28:39 10/23/00

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On October 23, 2000 at 19:53:30, Wayne Lowrance wrote:

>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.
>>
Did you see that performance of Nimzo 8 at the end of W.C.C.C. it ended up in
2nd place.

Pichard.
>>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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