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

Author: Chessfun

Date: 19:26:05 10/23/00

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On October 23, 2000 at 20:40:32, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>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


Naturally I knew about this but wasn't sure of the time controls.
Besides which that was only 9 games?.

Sarah.




>>>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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