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Subject: Re: Extreme Computer Chess

Author: pavel

Date: 15:54:43 02/28/02

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On February 28, 2002 at 18:44:39, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On February 28, 2002 at 18:29:31, pavel wrote:
>
>>Hi everyone,
>>             After organizing a differant kind of match, HLCC (High Level
>>Computer Chess), I am thinking of organizing another differant kind of
>>tournament. Naming it ECC (Extreme Computer Chess!) ;)
>>
>>Well here is the thought process behind the games.
>>
>>There will be a set of 1000s of games between chess programs at reasonable time
>>control. The engines will be very selective, only the top 10 or top 5 or
>>inbetween.
>>Ussually I see same type of rating list from many peoples at differant hardware,
>>not being sure how much accurate that list is! We ussually see an error margin
>>big enough to make us think twice.
>>
>>I have done a similar match before between YACE and gandalf with 2000 games at 5
>>mintues, but the game wsnt very prefferable because of the time control and it
>>was played on one processor with ponder=on.
>>
>>Anyways, here are the topics in which I need your input.
>>
>>1) What should be the time control? I personally preffer 60mins/game, because we
>>are talking about a lot of games here (could be 1000 games against just one
>>opponent).
>>
>>2) programs to choose.
>>
>>my prefferance (and considering the fact that I have these programs)
>>
>>1) Fritz 7
>>2) Shredder 6
>>3) Chess tiger 14
>>4) Junior 7
>>5) Hiarcs 7
>>6) Nimzo 8 (well...)
>>7) crafty (latest version)
>>8) Yace (latest version)
>>9) Gandalf 4.32 ( maybe I will get 5.0 soon, but its not much of a differance)
>>
>>
>>let me know what you think.
>>any opinion, whether this is a stupid idea or even a differant idea, whatever
>>comes in mind, something differant than ussual
>
>It seems to me that with this particular set of engines, you would be
>(basically) duplicating the SSDF results, at somewhat faster time controls.


with more accuracy...?

pavs



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