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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