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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