Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 13:57:14 06/25/02
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On June 25, 2002 at 16:48:08, George Sobala wrote: >On June 25, 2002 at 15:08:08, Ron Langeveld wrote: > > >>I agree. The available tournament book is a major embarrassment, as I have >>stated before on this podium. I have generated my own book for Hiarcs 8 with >>2400+ games and imported a selection of recent 2550+ games to establish the >>tournament moves. This book is still being tested, but after more than 2000 >>games Hiarcs is allmost on par with Fritz 7 and Frit7.ctg (trailing less than 30 elo points). > >To ilustrate this "opening book effect": I am in the middle of a 12-round round >robin between Hiarcs8, Fritz7, Shredder Paderborn and CMFun (CM8000 variant), >30/0 on a K6/450 but I am using Nunn2 opening positions (alternate colours) >rather than opening books (starting from number 10). In other words in round one >each program plays every other program from the same starting position, then in >round 2 the same positions with colours reversed. Round 3 moves on to a new >position etc etc. > >Current Score: > >Hiarcs8 16/23 >CMFun 12/23 >Shredder6 9/23 >Fritz7 9/23 > >* Hiarcs8 6.5-1.5 Fritz7 in their mini-match. > >* Fritz7 is demolishing Shredder but is losing badly to CMFun. > >I am astonished by Fritz7's (7.0.0.8) poor performance but can't identify any >fault in the settings. Indeed, CMFun is at a disadvantage because the others are >using 3/4/some 5 tablebases. Quite remarkable so far! Please keep us informed.
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