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Subject: Re: odyssee2001-tournament: participants

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 03:31:44 01/01/01

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On December 31, 2000 at 21:40:29, Alexander Kure wrote:
>Hi Thorsten,
>I would be interested which of the above programs
>
>- use which GUI
>- use tablebases
>- use what opening book

>I am not sure for example which opening book Crafty will be using.
>Maybe you can create a spreadsheet with the following informations included:
>
>Program               GUI           Opening book       Egtb
>-----------------------------------------------------------
>Nimzo 8               Fritz 6       Nz8Book.ctg         Yes
>Crafty 17.4           Fritz 6       ???                 Yes
>:

>I would strongly recommend to let Genius 3 play instead of Genius 6.5.
>From my own experience it is the strongest version.
>As I suggested in a different thread i would like to provide Genius 3 with a
>special opening book so that it has no problems to compete with todays top
>programs ;-)

Hello Alex !
Thank you for your comments.
Of course we will make such a spreadsheet, when everything is clear
and fixed. So far this is only a wish-list and things come more and more
precise , but are not 100 % sure.
If you e.g. take crafty, i would like to contact bob and other
crafty-experts themselves and ask them, so that it is OK for THEM.
this all takes time. some people are in holidays.
but it will work in the end. We don't have to be 100%
precise. this is no world-computer-chess-championship.
but i will give my best to make it as accurate as i can.
of course any participants or kibitz has
the right to criticize. its an open tournament.

>Greetings
>Alex

to come back to your comments concerning genius:
i have created a new style for genius6.5 that seems to make it significantly
stronger. i want to test if genius is capable to "come back" with a change
of its playing strength. IMO richard threw the thing to early.
the reason genius is weaker is a) it gets outsearched b) its completely
passive playing style.

the thing with the others outsearching genius can be changed, and the passive
playing style thing can be changed. my style is IMO as good as fritz,
and will hopefully increase genius' playing-strength.

therefore i want to use this experimental version. we all know how strong
genius is, we can read it in ssdf-lists. so bringing normal genius
into the field would give a kind of reference, but i have no doubt that
genius would not have any chance. the opening book and the search and the style
is overtaken by time.
therefore i want to play with MY genius-version.



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