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Subject: Re: Can an amateur program win a world championchip ? ... An experiment !

Author: Frank Quisinsky

Date: 04:55:03 07/02/01

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On July 02, 2001 at 07:48:13, Uri Blass wrote:

>On July 02, 2001 at 05:34:51, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>
>>Hi there,
>>
>>at the moment I make a little experiment and created a webpage to this
>>experiment. At the moment is the webpage only in German available.
>>
>>Amateure contra Profis under:
>>http://amateurschach.in-trier.de/schach/cbase/experiment.htm
>>
>>The question is:
>>Can an amateur program win a world championchip?
>>
>>I will here plays 20 tourneys swiss system with 16 programs and 9 rounds.
>>The same programs / versions with 40 moves in 10 minutes. Furthermore, without
>>tablebases (I believe this is also interesting).
>>
>>In the last days I play a test tournament, only to see different configurations.
>>
>>T-01:
>>http://amateurschach.in-trier.de/dia/t-01.jpg
>>http://amateurschach.in-trier.de/dia/t-01.zip (games in CBH).
>>
>>Crafty 18.10 with a very good result but the first 3 programs are professionals.
>
>I believe that the answer is clearly positive.
>
>It is a good idea to give every program the best hardware that it can use.
>
>If Crafty can use a good alpha when it can search 7M nodes per second then it is
>a good idea to give it to Crafty.
>If other programs cannot use the alpha then it is not Crafty's fault.
>
>
>>I think that maybe in 5% the amateurs can win the WM, but the reality is that
>>maybe 0.1% amateurs can win a tournament.
>
>The reality is that Crafty won one of the ICC tournament and ferret was one of
>the winners of another ICC tournament.
>
>Both programs are amatuers.
>
>The reality is that Junior4.5 won one WMCCC when it was amatuer.
>
>Uri

Hi Uri,

yes, yes ... so I hope that a amateur program can win one of my 20 experimental
tourneys.

Thanks for your answere.

Best
Frank



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