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Subject: Re: T2002 [60/120'] Standing after 68 rounds [Results, Comments, Games]

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 14:40:04 02/16/02

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On February 16, 2002 at 17:25:01, pavel wrote:

>>Who can/will stop TheKing312X? It is incredible for how long the program of
>>Johan de Koning is leader in this tournament. And between top scorer TheKing312X
>>and Fritz7002 is already a gap of four points!!
>>
>
>
>no offense to you, but I frankly don't believe that a program can improve so
>much just by tweaking it's settings. If this is so, then I have to say the
>programmer himself is ignorant enough to miss this, which is not the case for
>Johan de Koning. I believe there is some problem with the setting of the
>tournament.
>
>Let along being better than Fritz 7, I think TheKing engine is not even close to
>fritz7, perhaps 50-60 elo weaker, if someone can just increase the strength of a
>chess engine by 50-60 elo points just by tweaking it's setting, eiher there is
>something seriously wrong, or something ingenious happened. :)
>
>Even though the game number is not much, but it is clearly doing very well.
>
>Just my opinions, I maybe very wrong. ;)
>
>pavs


 Just tweaking the settings?! Don't forget that TheKing has access to
 TBs, playing in the CB-GUI. And, instead of the original 100Kb CM book,
 uses the Nimzo book...

 Sune




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