Author: Uri Blass
Date: 19:27:24 04/06/02
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On April 06, 2002 at 22:13:17, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 06, 2002 at 21:43:08, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>SJeng 12.11 is playing without TB to make it fair since Chess Tiger 14.9 doesn't >>use TB. Even with TB SJeng would have lost this game regardless. Uri is right >>this SJeng is a tought opponent with an estimated rating by its author close to >>2400 in standard time control.2. What is Sjeng's status ? >> >>PS: Simply consider this a Pearl of a game, Simply an Amazing Performance! >> >> >>It has successfully beaten players rated over 2500 points, including several >>titled GM's and IM's. One version of Sjeng even attained the first place in the >>crazyhouse players list on the Internet Chess Club (ICC), and the first place on >>the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS). Its crazyhouse rating currently >>fluctuates around 2300 points. >>Sjeng is probably a bit weaker in bughouse than it is in crazyhouse. Most >>Sjeng's on the FICS have a rating of about 2000 points in bughouse, with a top >>of over 2200 points. >> >>For standard chess, Sjeng's rating is probably about 2400 ELO. In suicide and >>losers chess Sjeng beats all but the very best humans, and will beat >>non-specialized programs easily. > >It seems strange to me that sjeng gets only depth 4 or 5. >I know that we cannot compare depthes of different programs but >programs usually get bigger depths and even the weak movei on celeron gets >usually depth 7-9 at that time control. > >Uri I can add that sjeng can search clearly deeper in the middle game based on the following post. http://www.it.ro/ccc_search/ccc.php?art_id=198392 I know that the hardware is better and that sjeng is an older version and the positions are different but still sjeng could get depth 8 in a few seconds. I suspect that your celeron was slowed down by a significant factor so sjeng did not enjoy from a significant speed advantage that the celeron should give it. Uri
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