Author: Bas Hamstra
Date: 15:01:24 11/03/01
Against Diep Winboard's clock was slightly out of sync with the real clock. Don't ever let that happen! Amazing how fast the difference grows and you CAN'T adjust the clock in Winboard. A couple of minutes difference is *deadly*. And, though it is allowed to adjust the engine clock, apparently it is not allowed to restart Winboard+engine with a corrected time. Vincent was the first to point that out to the tournament directors. "Not allowed! If I can't restart my engine for table bases, HE can't bla bla bla..." (Tao +0.90 Diep +0.001 but drawish IMO). Whatever I would have done in this situation, *not* this pityful "no no, not allowed!". The 30 nullmoves from Diep that followed to push Tao through the flag I can forgive, but not the "nono". IsiChess and SpiderChess play a really great tournament, IsiChess being very close to the top, defeating TheKing and drawing Tiger. Interesting was the game Tiger-Fritz, where Fritz had 6 good looking pawns (of which 5 freepawns I believe) for a rook. Very difficult to evaluate for programs. Tiger ate them one by one and won. And of course Gadget surprised again, the 7 ply searching program kept it's position against Diep to a point where Diep thought for nearly a full hour and then had only 15 minutes left on it's clock. Crazy. Tao plays not convincing this tournament, it scored 4 out of 9 so far. I'm not satisfied, I experimented with a Crafty like mini-qsearch for 7 rounds, in an attempt to make it search positionally slightly deeper, but reverted back to the usual qsearch then. Tomorrow Crafty-Tao. Bas.
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