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Subject: Re: New engine tournament: Qualification Swiss has started!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 15:08:31 11/02/00

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On November 02, 2000 at 17:55:13, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On November 02, 2000 at 17:34:16, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On November 02, 2000 at 17:00:06, Andreas Schwartmann wrote:
>>
>>>As Xmas is coming nearer, this is the time of the year for another mega engine
>>>tournament under the Fritz GUI. The best engines the computer chess world has to
>>>offer will take part, as long as they are able to run under Fritz. I especially
>>>thank a lot of authors for providing me with updated engines!
>>>
>>>First there will be a qualification tourney, 12 rounds swiss style, with 24
>>>engines. They will play under AMD Duron 900 MHz system with 80 MB hash tables.
>>>The best 16 of these engines will then play a round robin tournament with
>>>120/40, 60/20, 60 time control.
>>>
>>>Note that all winboard engines will use their own book.
>>>
>>>All games can be downloaded from my web site (www.andreas-schwartmann.de), once
>>>they are finished. The tourney already started with a fantastic win of Yace vs.
>>>Junior 6a.
>>
>>I agree.
>>A fantastic game.
>>
>>Junior outsearched Yace and lost the game.
>>The game proves the importance of luck in computer chess.
>>
>>Junior was the first side to see that it is 'winning' when yace saw it only
>>later.
>
>I think this first observation may come from the book move scores of Yace,
>they have to be ignored and were inititially meant only for my debugging.

I see that you are right and it seems to be a good choice of the book line.

<snipped>
>The score continiously increases for white from both engines. For a few
>moves, Juniors score is significantly more in favor for white than Yace's score.

There was one case in move 18 when Junior expected Qg4+ with score of +2.24 for
white and Yace played 19.Nf6+ with 0.54 pawns for black.

This big difference seems to be a result of outsearching.

Uri



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