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Subject: Re: OP 2002 Nunn [60/120'] Nunn Pos. 9 [Cross tables, Comments]

Author: Chessfun

Date: 04:06:55 05/11/02

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On May 11, 2002 at 06:35:10, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>#####################################################################
>Tournament OP 2002 by chessfriend Rolf Bühler, Zurich
>Nunn1 test = 10 positions / No opening books used
>Comments to Nunn position 9 / Games 81-90
>Published by Kurt Utzinger, Switzerland
>
>Played 90 of 100 rounds / 270 games of 300 games / 6 engines
>Rounds 81-90 = Nunn position 9, English
>
>3 x AMD Athlon 1.3 GHz, 256 MB ram
>Engine-Matches [normally=1 round per day]
>Fritz6-GUI [ChessBase]
>64 MB hashtables; ponder=off; 4 men TBS
>
>Fritz 7 = Fritz 7.0.0.6
>Shredder 6.02 = Shredder Paderborn (CB)
>
>TheKing 3.12 X = TheKing 3.12 [8777 settings and
>using WinBoard adapter 2000-11-23 and InBetween.ini]
>
>Time control: 60/120' + 30/60' + 30'
>
>Games [rounds 1-90] can be found under http://www.pcschach.de
>
>Cross tables generated with
>- Elostat v.1.1 of Frank Schubert [start ELO 2500]
>Properly formatted cross tables can be found at
>http://www.computerschach.de/forum/ and at
>http://www.f22.parsimony.net/forum41668/
>################################3#####################################
>
>[D]r1bq1rk1/ppp1npbp/2np2p1/4p3/2P5/2NPP1P1/PP2NPBP/R1BQ1RK1 b - - 0 8
>
>Nunn position 9: English
><pre>
>OP 2002  Ath 1.3/64
>Zurich, 2002.05.05 - 2002.05.10
>                        Score     Fr Th Sh Ch Ju Hi
>----------------------------------------------------
> 1: Fritz 7            6.0 / 10   XX =0 == =1 11 10
> 2: TheKing 3.12 X     5.5 / 10   =1 XX =1 =0 == 10
> 3: Shredder 6.02      5.5 / 10   == =0 XX 1= 1= 01
> 4: Chess Tiger 14.0   4.5 / 10   =0 =1 0= XX 00 11
> 5: Junior 7           4.5 / 10   00 == 0= 11 XX 01
> 6: Hiarcs 7.32        4.0 / 10   01 01 10 00 10 XX
>----------------------------------------------------
>30 games: +16 =10 -4
></pre>
>
>GERMAN:
>In diesem 10-er Paket wäre Fritz7006 Weltmeister geworden, wenn auch nicht mit
>grosser Ueberlegenheit, denn keines der Programme konnte mehr als ein Score von
>60 Prozent erreichen. Endlich auch wieder mal ein Comeback von TheKing312X, aber
>das kommt eindeutig zu spät. Erstaunlich jedoch, dass den 16 Gewinnpartien von
>Weiss bei 10 x Remis nur gerade 4 Schwarzsiege gegenüberstehen. Die relativ
>ruhige Nunn-Stellung 9 scheint also bei Computerprogramme eindeutig zum Vorteil
>für Weiss auszuschlagen. Nun geht es in den Endspurt, und man kann sich fragen,
>ob es noch gelingt, den bislang souveränen Fritz7006 noch aufzuhalten. Beim
>Kampf um die Plätze 2-4 ist noch alles offen, während TheKing312X versuchen
>muss, sein wenig erfreuliches Gesamtscore noch kräftig zu verbessern. Und
>wahrscheinlich wird Hiarcs732 vom letzten Platz nicht wegzukommen. Aber lassen
>wir uns überraschen.
>
>
>ENGLISH:
>In this serie, Fritz7006 would have been the world champion, although with the
>maximum score of 60 percent no program demonstrated its superiority. The
>comeback of TheKing312X came too late. A very astonishing thing to me was that
>16 games ended with a win for White whereas only 4 games showed a win with the
>black pieces. The rather quiet Nunn position 9 obviously gives a clear edge to
>the computer programs when playing the white pieces. And now, we are soon coming
>to the end of the Nunn Test 1 and the only question is: which program may be
>able to stop Fritz7006? And which programs will be placed 2-4? All can happen
>here. The aim of TheKing312X should be to somewhat improve his bad score. And
>most probably Hiarcs732 will remain at the last place.
>
>***Standing after 90 rounds***
>
><pre>
>    Program                            Score     %    Av.Op.  Elo    +   -
>
>  1 Fritz 7                        :  55.0/ 90  61.1   2487   2566   63  62
>  2 Junior 7                       :  48.5/ 90  53.9   2496   2523   70  55
>  3 Shredder 6.02                  :  48.0/ 90  53.3   2496   2519   71  54
>  4 Chess Tiger 14.0               :  47.5/ 90  52.8   2497   2516   72  55
>  5 TheKing 3.12 X                 :  37.5/ 90  41.7   2510   2451   57  66
>  6 Hiarcs 7.32                    :  33.5/ 90  37.2   2515   2424   60  62
></pre>


Excellent reading.
I don't comment on many of these but read them all.
Great work.

Sarah.




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