Author: Chessfun
Date: 12:04:50 04/15/01
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On April 15, 2001 at 13:59:37, Aaron Tay wrote: >On April 15, 2001 at 13:55:04, Kurt Utzinger wrote: > >>CM8_Utzinger the strongest chess program of the world?? >> >>The longer I am playing with CM8_Utzinger the more I am convinced that with >>these settings the CM belongs to the strongest program of the world. Never in my >>live have I seen a program with a better start against all its competitors. At >>Blitz there are stronger settings (for example CM 8777 from St. Kleinert) but my >>CM8_Utzinger settings seems to become much stronger at higher time controls: a >>minimum of 30 seconds per move is required, even better are time controls at 60 >>seconds and more. The prove are my matches 40/40 and so far CM8_Utzinger has won >>all matches over 10 games: the "loosers" are ChessTiger13, Fritz6b, >>Gandalf_432h, Junior6a, Nimzo732. At the time of writing CM8_Utzinger >>leads with 5.5-0.5 against Hiarcs732!! And 1-0 was the result against Shredder4 >>in the first game. >> >>It is somewhat hardly believable that CM8_Utzinger obtains such good results. >>And despite the tremendous success I am still suspicious and waiting for a >>couple of games that CM8_Utzinger is loosing. How long have I to wait for such >>a happening? My experience has shown that one day it will (must) happen ..... >> >>One thing is to mention: with my settings the program's evaluation score is in >>most cases much higher than that of its opponent. CM8_Utzinger may have a >>positional advantage showing +1.85 against -0.45 but such games do seldom end >>with a draw, no the normal result is 1-0 in favour of CM8, but of course: no >>rule without exception. >> >>Normally, I do not play CM8_Utzinger vs other Chessmaster personalities. And >>this for good reasons. After having made about 120 test positions with various >>personalities (CM8 original, Rubidio, Schüle, Kleinert, El Rey) the most >>astonishing result was that it was not possible to say for sure which setting is >>the best. Therefore I prefer playing matches against other chess programs and >>here one can see the difference much easier. And by the way it's more fun. >> >>And last but not least: CM8_Utzinger plays an exciting chess. In almost every >>game unbalanced material is on the board, the program likes passed pawns and >>knows to handle such situations very well. It can also be said that CM8_Utzinger >>is a good attacker and what is also important, the program is even dangerous in >>"hopeless" positions. >> >>If someone is interested in the games, please mail to kut@freesurf.ch >>And now the results of all games played by CM8_Utzinger: >> >>Program Games CM Opp CM % TC Hardware / HT >> >> >>AnMon 5.10 3 3 0 100% 40/40 K6-2 533/16 EngMatch >>Chess Tiger 13 10 6 4 60% 40/40 2x Duron 800/64 >>CM 6555 3 1.5 1.5 50% Av 30' Dual Athl 1,2/128 >>CM 8555 6 4.5 1.5 75% Game15' P3 800/32 EngMatch >>CM8 El Rey 6 4 2 67% Game15' P3 800/32 EngMatch >>Deep Fritz 1 0 1 0% Av 60' Dual Athl 1,2/128 >>Fritz 6b 10 5.5 4.5 55% 40/40 2x Duron 800/64 >>Gandalf 4.32h 10 5.5 4.5 55% 40/40 K6-2 533/16 EngMatch >>Hiarcs 7.32 6 5.5 0.5 92% 40/40 2x Duron 800/64 >>Junior 6a 10 6 4 60% 40/40 P3 650/64 + K6-3 450/64 >>LG 2000 v3.0 3 2.5 0.5 83% 40/40 K6-2 533/16 EngMatch >>Nimzo 7.32 10 5.5 4.5 55% 40/40 P3 650/64 + K6-3 450/64 >>Shredder 4.0 1 1 0 100% 40/40 P3 650/64 + K6-3 450/64 >>Yace 0.99 2 1.5 0.5 75% 40/40 P3 800/32 EngMatch >> >>CM8 Utzinger 81 52 29 64% > >Numbers don't seem to support all the claims. A candidate only if he'll agree to rename the settings CM8 Deep Utzinger. Sarah. >>Best regards >>Kurt
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