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Subject: Re: Qualifier.

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 05:44:09 06/25/01

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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 think that is a bad analagy.  You make a lot of them, but this might be your
worst yet.  I think a better analagy would be, playing 18 holes of put-put golf,
to qualify for Pebble Beach.

The honest truth is, that I want to have several big games against GM's in the
coming months, and I am unsure what the best engine would be.  So I decided to
take an easy approach.  Play the games like I would be playing against the GM's,
and whoever won, would play.

The point of the qualifying match is only to get a contender, nothing else.


Slate
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>
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>>
>>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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