Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 23:15:03 01/06/01
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On January 06, 2001 at 20:30:16, stuart taylor wrote: >On January 06, 2001 at 06:45:15, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>Heinz-Josef Schumacher a well known computer chess journalist in Germany ran >>a giant computer tournament between the current top programs called the "Next >>Generation Tournament 2001" which was convincingly won by Rebel-Tiger II. >> >>Rebel-Century 3 ended second but had the advantage of faster hardware. >> >>Specifics: >> >>· Hardware: Athlon 700 Mhz, 384 Mb Ram and AMD K6-3 400 Mhz. >>· Autoplayer tournament except for Century 3 which games were played manually >> because of the known autoplayer problems. >>· All games of Century 3 were played on the faster hardware. >>· Time control: 60 moves in 2 hours, there after 30 moves in 1 hour. >>· Double round tournament, each program played every program with white and >> black, 20 games in total. >> >> Name Tot Score + ½ - Perc >> >> 1. Chess Tiger 13.0 20 13.5 - 6.5 12 3 5 67% >> 2. Rebel Century 3.0 20 12.5 - 7.5 10 5 5 62% >> 3. DeepFritz 20 12.0 - 8.0 11 2 7 60% >> 4. Junior 6.0 20 12.0 - 8.0 9 6 5 60% >> 5. Gambit Tiger 1.0 20 11.0 - 9.0 7 8 5 55% >> 6. Fritz 6 20 10.5 - 9.5 7 7 6 52% >> 7. Hiarcs XY 20 10.0 - 10.0 5 10 5 50% >> 8. Shredder 5 20 9.5 - 10.5 7 5 8 47% >> 9. SOS 11/2000 20 7.0 - 13.0 4 6 10 35% >> 10. Nimzo 8 20 6.5 - 13.5 2 9 9 32% >> 11. Gandalf 4.32g 20 5.5 - 14.5 2 7 11 27% >> >>More at the result page of Rebel 11 where you also can download the games. >> >>http://www.rebel.nl/r11-resu.htm >> >>Ed > >just one or two clarifications if possible- >1) What is Hiarcs XY? >2) Are they all done with latest patches? (and not the upcoming patch for >Tiger)? >3)Was Deep Fritz done on a singal proccessor? > >I would also wonder why Shredder 5.0 did so badly. Although I believe it could >have been possible for Shredder 5.0 and Chess Tiger 13 to change places, as CT13 >still seems to have some weaknesses according to some experiments (like certain >settings from, if I remember correctly, Fritz 6a), but the upcoming patch may >leave it at top place for all the coming year, because, when weaknesses are >corected, at this level, it's increasingly harder to find and exploit further >smaller weaknesses. And if Hiarcs XY is a test version, it hasn't been developed >properly yet. Maybe It hasn't been easy to improve upon Hiarcs 7.---, hence all >the delays. >S.Taylor For all info please check the URL's given on my pages. Unfortunately it is in German only. http://homepages.compuserve.de/hjsxy/page3.html All info about the tournament. http://f23.parsimony.net/forum45718/ The Forum to ask your questions. Ed
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