Author: Peter McKenzie
Date: 21:59:22 06/24/01
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On June 25, 2001 at 00:22:15, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On June 24, 2001 at 23:06:09, Slater Wold wrote: > >>I am holding a qualifing match between ALL the top programs. The time control >>will be 25/10 and it will be a 3 cycle Round Robin. >> >>The purpose of this tournament is to qualify an engine to go against several >>2500+ GM's in the next 5-6 months. These games will also be played at 25/10. >> >>Each game will be played on a Dual Pentium III 1,000Mhz ~ 184MB hash. Pondering >>will be on, and the default book will be used, at tournament levels. > > >One question: what is the point of playing computers against each other, to >choose one to play against a human? Isn't this like playing 9 holes of golf >to choose the challenger for the world champion in the shot put? I'd say its more like running a 400m race to choose a challenger for the 400m hurdles. Thing is, its hard to do any better when you can't find any hurdles to use. > > > > >> >>Engines participating will be: >> >>Chess Tiger 14.0 >>Deep Fritz >>Gambit Tiger 2.0 >>Hiarcs 7.32 >>Junior 6.0 >>Nimzo 8 >>Shredder 5 >>Crafty 18.10 >> >>If Shredder, Junior, or Crafty win, the SMP versions will be used against the >>GMs. >> >>As the games are played, I will post them. Probably on a website. >> >>Each engine will be given a deafult ELO of 2400. This is only so we can have a >>relative average of performance. >> >> >>Slate
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