Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 20:18:03 05/24/02
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That's a 10-4 Mike. Over. CT-14 10 wins Draws are no count. Crafty 4 wins Tim Frohlick On May 24, 2002 at 23:04:12, Mike Byrne wrote: >The first " Frank J. Byrne Memorial Computer Chess Challenge " begins today. > >In remembrance of my late father who personally owned one the first IBM XT >machines over 20 years ago - a machine that I grew up on. My dad was a writer >and he was one of the first to get into "desktop publishing" - way before it was >even called "desktop publishing". > >The Programs: > >World's Best Commercial Computer Chess Program -- Chess Tiger 14 by Christophe >Theron > >Vs > >World's Best Freely Available Non-Commercial Computer Chess Program - Crafty >18.15 (Non-SMP) by Robert Hyatt > >Hardware: > >Dell Dual P4 1700Mhz Xeon w.512MB ram > >Settings: > >Each program will be assigned to one CPU. Since each program will have it's own >CPU - pondering will be on. >Crafty non-SMP edition will be used. >Hash tables will be set at 96MB >EGTB Cache will be set at 30MB >Chess Tiger factory settings will be used - except for NSEW=1 as suggested by >Theron is his posts here. >Chesspartner 5.1 will serve as the interface using the beta ERT program. > > >Crafty will be using non-standard evaluation settings, piece settings, and >extension settings, and as well as a non standard "lazy exit" (evaluate.c) code >and time setting (time.c) code. Should Crafty do well, these non-standard >setting and code will be released to the public. Should Crafty not do well - >they will be filed into a virtual circular file. > >All of these settings I used experimentally over the last 5-7 years with varying >degrees of success. For the match, the settings being are ones that I believe >will have the best chance of success. > >Crafty's book is also a handcrafted item that has evolved over the years. The >book is pretty good- every once a while it pops out with bad opening. > >The Match: > >Like the days of yore - it is the first program to win 10 games - and they must >have a margin of victory of 2 games. A winning score could be 10-8 or 21-19 it >all depends on how the games go. Draws do not count - it just wins that count. > >Time Controls: > >40/120 - no sudden death - every 40 moves is another 2 hours for both sides. I >am expecting/hoping to complete about 5 games a week. There will be no more >than one game completed in a day - better to analyze the games in between and to >foster a little interest on a daily basis. Ianticpate it will take a month or >more to completethsi challenge > >I will post the games in process as time permits under the heading "Frank J. >Byrne Memorial Computer Chess Challenge" > >Good luck to the programs! > >Yours truly in chess, > >Mike Byrne
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