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Subject: Don't pay DeKoening any more currency until he improves the King engine!

Author: Drazen Marovic

Date: 10:37:01 11/04/01

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Chessmaster is the best selling program in the world, is it too much to ask for
DeKoening to actually improve the engine at least a little in the next version?
 I feel as if the company that is paying him is being cheated.  No slaps against
anyone i could be wrong, that's just my opinion.  I make the statement because i
would like that engine to actually be improved it has a very nice style of play.

D


>Hi Kevin,
>
>pasted from Computerschaak.nl:
>
>Pairing of round 10 of Open Dutch Computer Chess Championship 2001
>Table  White                     - Black                                Results
>----------------------------------------------------------------------- round 10
>  1    XiniX               ( 4½) - Chess Tiger 14.6    ( 7 )    12-  2  0-1
>  2    Rebel-Century 4     ( 7 ) - Sjeng               ( 4 )     3-  9  1-0
>  3    EEC                 ( 0 ) - Fritz               ( 6½)    15-  1  0-1
>  4    Diep                ( 5½) - IsiChess X          ( 6 )     6- 10  ½-½
>  5    Kallisto II-x       ( 5½) - The King            ( 5½)     5-  4  0-1
>  6    Morphy XP 4.0       ( 2 ) - SpiderChess         ( 5 )    13- 14  0-1
>  7    Crafty              ( 4½) - Tao                 ( 4 )     8-  7  1-0
>  8    Ant                 ( 4 ) - Gadget              ( 1 )    11- 16  1-0
>
>Pairing of round 11 of Open Dutch Computer Chess Championship 2001
>Table  White                     - Black                                Results
>----------------------------------------------------------------------- round 11
>  1    Chess Tiger 14.6    ( 8 ) - Crafty              ( 5½)     2-  8  1-0
>  2    EEC                 ( 0 ) - Rebel-Century 4     ( 8 )    15-  3  0-1
>  3    Fritz               ( 7½) - Gadget              ( 1 )     1- 16  1-0
>  4    SpiderChess         ( 6 ) - IsiChess X          ( 6½)    14- 10  ½-½
>  5    The King            ( 6½) - Sjeng               ( 4 )     4-  9  0-1
>  6    Diep                ( 6 ) - Kallisto II-x       ( 5½)     6-  5  ½-½
>  7    Morphy XP 4.0       ( 2 ) - Ant                 ( 5 )    13- 11  ½-½
>  8    Tao                 ( 4 ) - XiniX               ( 4½)     7- 12  1-0
>
>
>Ranking after round 11 of Open Dutch Computer Chess Championship 2001
>No.  PNo.  Name                       Score WP    SB     PS    rat.  TPR  W-We
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  1.    2  Chess Tiger 14.6            9.0  70.0  57.75  55.0  0000  -   0
>        3  Rebel-Century 4             9.0  66.0  50.75  52.5  0000  -   0
>  3.    1  Fritz                       8.5  62.0  40.50  49.0  0000  -   0
>  4.   10  IsiChess X                  7.0  70.0  38.25  41.0  0000  -   0
>  5.    6  Diep                        6.5  66.5  31.50  36.5  0000  -   0
>        4  The King                    6.5  66.0  33.25  41.5  0000  -   0
>       14  SpiderChess                 6.5  59.0  24.75  37.5  0000  -   0
>  8.    5  Kallisto II-x               6.0  65.5  27.50  39.5  0000  -   0
>  9.   11  Ant                         5.5  56.5  18.75  32.5  0000  -   0
>        8  Crafty                      5.5  55.5  15.75  32.0  0000  -   0
> 11.    9  Sjeng                       5.0  58.0  17.00  28.0  0000  -   0
>        7  Tao                         5.0  52.5  13.25  30.5  0000  -   0
> 13.   12  XiniX                       4.5  53.0  11.25  28.0  0000  -   0
> 14.   13  Morphy XP 4.0               2.5  52.5   3.75  16.5  0000  -   0
> 15.   16  Gadget                      1.0  55.5   0.00   8.0  0000  -   0
> 16.   15  EEC                         0.0  59.5   0.00   0.0  0000  -   0
>
>
>Tournament cross table                           1 1 1 1 1 1 1
>PNo.  Name                     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>  2 Chess Tiger 14.6           x + + + + - = +   + = + +
>  3 Rebel-Century 4            - x + + = + + = + + +         +
>  1 Fritz                      - - x = + + + + +   +       + +
> 10 IsiChess X                 - - = x = + = = + +     + +
>  6 Diep                       - = - = x = = =   +   +   + +
>  4 The King                   + - - - = x   + +   - + +     +
> 14 SpiderChess                = - - = =   x   -   + +   + + +
>  5 Kallisto II-x              - = - = = -   x = +     + + +
> 11 Ant                          - - -   - + = x     = + = + +
>  8 Crafty                     - -   - -     -   x + + = + + +
>  9 Sjeng                      = - -     + -     - x = - + + +
>  7 Tao                        -       - - -   = - = x + + + +
> 12 XiniX                      -     -   -   - - = + - x + + +
> 13 Morphy XP 4.0                    - -   - - = - - - - x + +
> 16 Gadget                         -   -   - - - - - - - - x +
> 15 EEC                          - -     - -   - - - - - - - x
>
>Congratulations to Gerd Isenberg and his IsiChess - fantastic result - also I
>think Gian Carlo will now be satisfied with his Sjeng - beating a commercial
>engine is always something special... :) (Johan must have a horror now from
>those to him unknown winboard-engines... :)
>I hope we will see some of those engines in the near future as winboard engines,
>last statement from Gerd Isenberg was that he may try that... Also I have some
>hope with SpiderChess and very cool would be a Kallisto II - WB-version... :)
>
>Greets, Thomas



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