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Subject: Re: Chess Madness 2001 - a madly thrilling final round

Author: John Merlino

Date: 18:23:12 02/19/01

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On February 19, 2001 at 17:41:06, Shep wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>close to the end of the final round, here are the standings of my current big
>tournament, Chess Madness 2001.
>Time control is 40/120 on two PIII-550, 256 MB, no autoplayer:
>
>Group A:
>  1. Chess Tiger 13.0        5.5 (26.0)
>     Hiarcs 7.32             5.5 (26.0)
>  3. Gandalf 4.32f           5.0*
>     Shredder 5.0            5.0
>     Deep Fritz              5.0
>  6. SOS 11/2000             2.0*
>
>If Gandalf wins its final game against SOS, Gandalf and Hiarcs qualify for the
>semifinals (since Hiarcs scored 1.5/2 against Gandalf while Tiger only scored
>1.0/2). If Gandalf draws, SB points will decide between the top 3, with Hiarcs
>probably taking #1. If Gandalf loses, Tiger and Hiarcs qualify (and a coin toss
>will determine who is #1).
>
>Group B:
>  1. Gambit Tiger 1.0        6.5
>  2. Junior 6.0a             6.0
>  3. Nimzo 8.0               5.0*
>     Rebel Century 3.0       5.0*
>  5. Chessmaster 8000        3.0***
>  6. Chess System Tal 2.03   0.5***
>
>Gambit wins the group. If Nimzo wins its last game, SB points will decide if
>NImzo or Junior takes #2 (with the result of Rebel-CM also influencing this).
>If CM wins its last 3 games, again SB points decide between CM and Junior (and
>possibly Nimzo). Rebel cannot qualify anymore since it has lost the direct
>comparison with Junior.
>
>Note: Gambit and Nimzo are the only undefeated programs. Junior lost twice to
>Gambit this time. Gambit lost only one of its 13 games at standard - against
>Junior, BTW.
>
>All games so far, including PGN, can be found on
>
>http://sccs.shep.de
>
>Final results will be posted here and to the Rebel board as they come.
>
>---
>Shep

You do understand that, without the patch, Chessmaster 8000's results at a
40/120 time control are not valid? If you have the European version of
Chessmaster, then you cannot possibly have gotten the patch yet. But if you have
the US version, I just wanted to make sure you knew about the moves/minutes time
control bug.

jm



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