Author: stuart taylor
Date: 00:42:14 01/07/01
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On January 07, 2001 at 02:15:03, Ed Schröder wrote: >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 It is indeed impossible for me to understand any of the German. WHICH is the forum to ask questions? This one NOT? S.Taylor
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