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Subject: Re: IPCCC 2001 (my view)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:55:12 02/26/01

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On February 25, 2001 at 15:10:50, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On February 25, 2001 at 12:29:57, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>On February 25, 2001 at 12:18:18, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On February 25, 2001 at 11:56:08, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 25, 2001 at 11:04:52, Amicitia Stone wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>This is just the way I see things:
>>>>>
>>>>>Most impressive result: Yace 0.99x 5th place (Wonderful)
>>>>>runner-up: Comet B.31 7th place (Still had 5.0/9 just like Yace)
>>>>
>>>>Very good indeed....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Most disappointing result: Nimzo 8.0 11th place (What happend?!)
>>>>>runner-up: P. ConNerS 10th place (How many processors does this thing need to
>>>>>win?!) I expected more from it....
>>>>>
>>>>>The team I feel most happy for: Deep Shredder 5.0 (Congrats!)
>>>>>runner-up: Holmes 0.74 (Nice try! I hope it was a good experience!)
>>>>
>>>>The pattern and story continues....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>The team I feel bad for: Deep Fritz Paderborn (Soooo close! 2nd ain't bad!)
>>>>>runner-up: Nimzo 8.0 (obvious reasons. It wasn't even going to enter the
>>>>>tounament. I bet they regret it.)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Same pattern...
>>>>
>>>>Put it into the autoplayer and it wins every long match.
>>> Starting
>>>>slowly but in the end the learner gets the other computer opponent.
>>>>
>>>
>>>I do not see it in the ssdf match against Deep Fritz.
>>
>>Then have a look again.
>>
>>Ed
>>
>>
>>>>Manual tournaments and autoplayer tournaments are different stories.
>>>>Wish it was different and it would give an equal pattern.
>>>>
>>>>Ed
>>>
>>>I think that a bigger book may help for autoplayer tournament because the
>>>program with the bigger book can find after enough games an opening when the
>>>opponent has no good answer to it.
>>>
>>>I think that it may be a good idea to use some fixed positions similiar to the
>>>nunn match for autoplayer games(I do not suggest the nunn match position because
>>>they are known positions and it is better to use positions after 10-15 moves
>>>from grandmasters games).
>>>
>>>Uri
>
>Simply test programs without book opening !
>
>Pichard.


And take out tablebases.  And big hash tables.  And clever search extensions.
etc...



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