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Subject: Re: Nimzo 8 showed a great performance at Blitz at the end of W.C.C.C.

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 17:40:32 10/23/00

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On October 23, 2000 at 20:31:38, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On October 23, 2000 at 20:28:39, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>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 in Blitz at the end of W.C.C.C. it ended up in 2nd place.

http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~olympiad/WMCCCblitzresult.htm

>>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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