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Subject: Re: Excellent idea for Chess Computer Tournament/Championship!

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 10:55:31 10/26/00

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On October 26, 2000 at 10:16:22, Sven Reichard wrote:

>>> 1. All the new top programs.
>>>2.Their previous versions.
>>>3.Preferably, their previous last TWO versions, in fact, (but at least the
>>>previous).
>>>4.All play all, either 8 or 16   games x3 (each for 5 minute, 30 minute and
>>>tournament timed cycles).
>>>5. If 8 games x3 each-each program would have one Q-pawn opening, one K-pawn
>>>opening one books off opening! and one Fisherandom, both as white and black
>>>which is 8 games.
>>>6.Or twice that.(the "books-off" can be started off once with d4 and once with
>>>e4. And the books on, can be "directed" a little to come to games of two
>>>different natures for each of the two  d4 or e4 games.
>>>7.Whether the 8 or 16 game all play all arrangements are made, it should be 3
>>>times that much. Once for 5 mins. Once for 30 mins. And once for 40 in 120 Mins.
>>>games=altogether 24 or  48 games for each program all play all.
>>>8.All on equal hardware.
>
>Assume we have 10 programs, each with their two most recent versions. This gives
>a total of 190 pairs. A set of three games (one at each time control) takes
>approximately 10min + 1h + 6h (worst case assumed), or let's say, 7h altogether.
>So we get a total of (190 matches)x(4 openings)x(7 hours) = 5320 hours. If
>somewhere I could find 7 CPU months to spare, I might organize such a
>tournament.
>
>Seriously, if you want to do this in a distributed manner, I might contribute.
>Sven.

I agree it's a lot of time/rescources. In a distributed manner would also be
good, if it can't be in an all out, spectator-rich, and supervised competition.
  But I unfortunately, am not in a position to oversee such a project. But how
about someone who does these things anyway? And isn't it an interesting plan?
S.Taylor



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