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Subject: Re: Crafty 18.13

Author: Chessfun

Date: 13:38:31 03/01/02

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On March 01, 2002 at 16:11:31, Uri Blass wrote:

>On March 01, 2002 at 15:02:04, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>
>>Has anyone played a reasonable amount of long time control games with
>>the CB version? What if any changes were there between 18.12 and 18.13?
>>
>>In my ongoing testing of Shredder 6 this Crafty version won +5 -0 =5.
>>Shredder 6 also took a heavy loss against SOS CB version. Both these
>>engines were using general.ctg. Although I haven't yet had time to check
>>the games.
>
>It seems that Shredder gets good results in tournaments when stefan is
>personally involved and Shredder had no problem to win against SOS in paderborn.
>
>I see it in so many tournaments that I tend to believe that it is because of
>better opening preperation and not because of luck(even if shredder is slightly
>better than other engines it cannot explain the fact that shredder wins a big
>majority of the tournaments when stefan is involved and the ssdf never suggested
>that shredder is number 1 except the last list when the difference is very small
>and the latest fritz was not tested).
>
>My impression is that Shredder's opening preperation gives it about 100 elo
>advantage relative to the opponents in tournaments when stefan is involved.


I pretty much agree with that, I also recall we have probably been down this
road during the Brain Games candidate debates here.

Odd results though.
Look at Junior 7 and Deep Junior, then Fritz 7a and 7b.
Currently against the original Fritz 7 it's +1 -1 =2.

Shredder 6                    : 190 (+ 66,= 69,- 55), 52.9 %

Deep Fritz                    :  10 (+  4,=  5,-  1), 65.0 %
Junior 6a                     :  10 (+  4,=  3,-  3), 55.0 %
Hiarcs 7.32                   :  10 (+  4,=  4,-  2), 60.0 %
Nimzo 7.32                    :  10 (+  3,=  5,-  2), 55.0 %
SOS  (CB)                     :  10 (+  1,=  4,-  5), 30.0 %
Fritz 4.01                    :  10 (+  7,=  3,-  0), 85.0 %
Junior 5.0                    :  10 (+  5,=  2,-  3), 60.0 %
Chess Tiger 14.0              :  10 (+  1,=  6,-  3), 40.0 %
Gambit Tiger 2.0              :  10 (+  3,=  2,-  5), 40.0 %
Junior 7                      :  10 (+  3,=  3,-  4), 45.0 %
Fritz 7 (No MMX)              :  10 (+  2,=  5,-  3), 45.0 %
Fritz 7b                      :  10 (+  4,=  4,-  2), 60.0 %
Crafty 18.13                  :  10 (+  0,=  5,-  5), 25.0 %
Fritz 7a                      :  10 (+  2,=  1,-  7), 25.0 %
Gandalf 5.1                   :  10 (+  4,=  4,-  2), 60.0 %
Deep Junior 7                 :  10 (+  6,=  3,-  1), 75.0 %
Crafty 17.11                  :  10 (+  6,=  3,-  1), 75.0 %
Fritz 6 Old                   :  10 (+  2,=  3,-  5), 35.0 %
Fritz 5.32                    :  10 (+  5,=  4,-  1), 70.0 %

Sarah.



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