Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 00:08:30 12/21/00
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On December 20, 2000 at 21:45:32, Will Singleton wrote: >On December 20, 2000 at 15:40:16, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>The two crown division has completed. I must admit that Crux really got the >>short end of the stick, and should probably not have been included in the >>contest. The version used for the contest was very unstable under Windows NT and >>Windows 2K, and (in fact) crashed in each and every 4 game cluster (sometimes as >>early as the first game). >> >>I expect that newer versions of Crux are much more stable. Therefore, I don't >>think that the rating applied to Crux from this contest should be considered as >>valid. >> >>The winner of the two crown division (Freyr) squeezed out a victory by the >>narrowest of margins (1/2 point) and so this race was far closer than the one >>crown division (which was a run-away for TSCP). >> >>Keep in mind that these experiments are played by versions of these programs >>that were available 6 months ago (no upgrades are performed during the contest). >>Many of the programs could be improved considerably by now. >> >> >>COMPLETED: >> Program Score % Av.Op. Elo + - Draws >> 1 TSCP : 30.0/ 36 83.3 2275 2555 83 155 22.2 % >> 2 Monik : 25.0/ 36 69.4 2289 2432 96 146 11.1 % >> 3 Storm : 21.5/ 36 59.7 2297 2365 107 112 19.4 % >> 4 Noonian : 21.0/ 36 58.3 2298 2356 109 78 44.4 % >> 5 Ozwald : 19.5/ 36 54.2 2300 2330 115 104 19.4 % >> 6 Zephyr : 19.5/ 36 54.2 2300 2330 115 97 25.0 % >> 7 LarsenVB : 19.5/ 36 54.2 2300 2330 115 97 25.0 % >> 8 SnailSCP : 10.0/ 36 27.8 2320 2154 129 93 22.2 % >> 9 Raffaela : 9.0/ 36 25.0 2322 2132 135 90 22.2 % >> 10 Golem01 : 5.0/ 36 13.9 2335 2018 237 81 5.6 % >> >>COMPLETED: >> Program Score % Av.Op. Elo + - Draws >> 1 Freyr : 31.0/ 44 70.5 2292 2443 84 130 13.6 % >> 2 Cilian : 30.5/ 44 69.3 2293 2434 85 131 11.4 % >> 3 Sjeng73 : 30.0/ 44 68.2 2293 2426 86 117 18.2 % >> 4 Faile : 28.0/ 44 63.6 2296 2394 91 102 22.7 % >> 5 Averno : 25.0/ 44 56.8 2301 2348 99 93 22.7 % >> 6 SSEchess : 24.0/ 44 54.5 2302 2334 103 90 22.7 % >> 7 Gully2 : 22.5/ 44 51.1 2304 2312 108 94 15.9 % >> 8 ColChess : 22.0/ 44 50.0 2305 2305 95 95 22.7 % >> 9 Chessterfield : 16.5/ 44 37.5 2312 2223 97 92 25.0 % >> 10 DChess : 16.5/ 44 37.5 2312 2223 123 92 6.8 % >> 11 NewRival : 12.0/ 44 27.3 2319 2148 126 82 18.2 % >> 12 Crux : 6.0/ 44 13.6 2331 2011 204 71 9.1 % >> >> Program Score % Av.Op. Elo + - Draws >> 1 ExChess : 27.0/ 36 75.0 2263 2453 90 162 11.1 % >> 2 ArasanX : 29.5/ 40 73.8 2269 2448 86 126 22.5 % >> 3 lambChop : 26.0/ 40 65.0 2300 2408 95 106 25.0 % >> 4 Ant : 23.5/ 40 58.8 2299 2360 102 100 22.5 % >> 5 InmiChess3 : 20.5/ 36 56.9 2276 2324 111 94 30.6 % >> 6 Knightx : 22.0/ 40 55.0 2293 2328 107 111 10.0 % >> 7 GNUChess4 : 17.0/ 40 42.5 2312 2259 96 104 25.0 % >> 8 Dragon : 16.5/ 40 41.2 2299 2238 100 102 22.5 % >> 9 gnuchess : 14.5/ 40 36.2 2312 2213 108 96 22.5 % >> 10 Amyan : 12.5/ 36 34.7 2336 2226 103 100 30.6 % >> 11 Fortress : 11.5/ 36 31.9 2309 2177 137 97 13.9 % >> 12 LDBlanche : 11.5/ 40 28.7 2320 2162 102 88 32.5 % >> >> Program Score % Av.Op. Elo + - Draws >> 1 LGoliath : 27.0/ 40 67.5 2282 2409 92 94 35.0 % >> 2 Amy : 25.5/ 40 63.7 2286 2384 96 100 27.5 % >> 3 Crafty : 25.0/ 40 62.5 2303 2392 98 89 35.0 % >> 4 AnMon : 24.5/ 40 61.3 2295 2374 99 97 27.5 % >> 5 TCBishop : 22.0/ 40 55.0 2281 2316 107 82 35.0 % >> 6 Gromit3 : 20.5/ 40 51.2 2285 2294 113 92 22.5 % >> 7 Phalanx : 20.0/ 40 50.0 2291 2291 95 95 30.0 % >> 8 Bringer : 19.5/ 40 48.8 2328 2319 77 113 37.5 % >> 9 Gromit2 : 19.0/ 40 47.5 2288 2271 96 111 20.0 % >> 10 SOS : 18.5/ 40 46.2 2312 2286 89 109 27.5 % >> 11 Comet : 17.5/ 40 43.8 2309 2265 64 106 52.5 % >> 12 ZChess : 14.0/ 40 35.0 2319 2212 121 95 15.0 % >> 13 Francesca : 13.5/ 40 33.8 2313 2196 120 93 17.5 % >> 14 Yace : 13.5/ 40 33.8 2309 2191 96 93 32.5 % > > >So, does EXchess move up, and Yace move down? Quite an amazing and interesting >tournament. For those who don't know, you might recap the tourney parameters, >machines, etc. ExChess moves up. There are still hundreds of games to go before the contest has finished. Only the 1 and 2 crown divisions have been completed. The 4-crown division has 13 rounds and is a long way from finished. One more month, I would guess, at a minimum. All told, well over 1000 games will be played to complete the contest. The machines are all PII class, with most of the games on 300 MHz machines. The games are played at long time controls (G/90 on 300 MHz equivalent time control or better). Some of the machines are 500Mhz, 600MHz, 900 MHz, or 1GHz. Even on the really fast ones, I don't reduce the time control under G/60. The idea of the contest is to (by some relatively scientific measure) find the real strength of freely available Winboard programs at "Standard" chess. The "Crowns" notation comes from Volker's Winboard site, where he rated the engines by awarding crowns. There have been some big surprises (for me). In particular, Amy does really well on the fastest hardware. I suspect that on a multiple CPU, 1GHz or better machine at slow time control, Amy will surprise a lot of people.
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