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Subject: Re: Yace 0.99.56 still the strongest amateur engine!? (Crafty 9.)

Author: Leo Dijksman

Date: 09:06:31 09/05/02

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On September 05, 2002 at 11:15:43, David Rasmussen wrote:

>On September 05, 2002 at 08:01:39, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On September 05, 2002 at 07:35:12, David Rasmussen wrote:
>>
>>>On September 05, 2002 at 04:20:24, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>>
>>>>Just notice for everyone. Ridderkerk 1. division is ended:
>>>>
>>>>WBEC Ridderkerk, 1st Division - 2nd edition.
>>>>DUAL-P3-1266  2002.06.21 - 2002.09.03
>>>>PONDER ON!!
>>>>                           Score
>>>>------------------------------------
>>>> 1: Yace 0.99.56         50.0 / 76
>>>> 2: Comet B.46           44.5 / 76
>>>> 3: Gromit 3.8.2         44.0 / 76
>>>> 4: Pharaon 2.62         44.0 / 76
>>>> 5: Nejmet 3.06          43.5 / 76
>>>> 6: Quark 1.76           43.5 / 76
>>>> 7: Pepito 1.53          42.0 / 76
>>>> 8: Little Goliath 3.5   40.5 / 76
>>>> 9: Crafty 18.15         40.0 / 76
>>>>10: AnMon 5.21           38.0 / 76
>>>>11: SOS 99.11.03         37.5 / 76
>>>>12: Amy 0.7              37.5 / 76
>>>>13: GreenLightCh 2.18    37.0 / 76
>>>>14: Amyan 1.531          34.0 / 76
>>>>15: TheCrazyBishop 0045  33.5 / 76
>>>>16: Phalanx XXII         32.5 / 76
>>>>17: Francesca MAD 0.06   31.5 / 76
>>>>18: Leila 0.53h          30.0 / 76
>>>
>>>I don't know how reliable this tournament is. Chezzz is consistently better on
>>>ICC against a number of the opponents that are above it in this tournament.
>>
>>Who are the opponents and what is the hardware?
>>
>>ICC has different time control and it does not use x minutes/y moves time
>>control.
>>ICC also does not use the same hardware for all players.
>>
>>I expect Chezzz to get better ranking than Ant and Averno in the end of this
>>tournament so I guess that it is going to be number 9.
>>
>>Chezzz already has more % than Ant and Ant is above Chezzz only because of
>>playing more games.
>>
>>Averno still needs to play against Resp so the result of Chezzz is better than
>>Averno.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Disregarding the 3rd division altogether, as all games haven't been played, I
>can say that Chezzz has an at least equal score with 2nd division engines such
>as Arasan, Exchess and Sjeng. WildCat, Delfi, SmarThink and WBQueen, Chezzz
>haven't even played against, I think.
>
>I'm not saying that the tournament is necesarily unreliable, and I know that
>chess strength isn't transitive, A can beat B, and B can beat C, but C may beat
>A. Still, my feeling is that Chezzz is roughly equal in strength to the lower
>end of 2nd division. I don't know how Leo setup Chezzz for the tournament.
>
>/David

You could have asked me :)
Here is how Chezz starts (from the wb.debug file):

StartChildProcess (dir="d:\WinBoard\Chezzz10") Chezzz10
578 >first : xboard
protover 2
578 <first : Chezzz version 1.0 alpha
578 <first : feature done=0
578 >first : accepted done
578 <first : Found book file with 722944 entries.
578 <first : Tablebase path: C:\TB
578 <first : Found 5-piece tablebases.
578 <first : 7025 KBytes used for compression tables.
578 <first : Allocated 8192 KBytes for caching.
578 <first : Clearing hash tables...
578 <first : Clearing pawn hash tables...
578 <first : Reading configuration file...
578 <first : Recreating hashtables with size: 67108864 bytes.
578 <first : Clearing hash tables...
953 <first : WHITE(1): ParseInput: protover 2
953 <first : feature ping=1
953 >first : accepted ping
953 <first : feature setboard=1
953 >first : accepted setboard
953 <first : feature playother=1
953 >first : accepted playother
953 <first : feature san=1
953 >first : accepted san
953 <first : feature usermove=1
953 >first : accepted usermove
953 <first : feature time=1
953 >first : accepted time
953 <first : feature draw=0
953 >first : accepted draw
953 <first : feature sigint=0
953 >first : accepted sigint
953 <first : feature sigterm=0
953 >first : accepted sigterm
953 <first : feature reuse=1
953 >first : accepted reuse
953 <first : feature analyze=1
953 >first : accepted analyze
953 <first : feature myname="Chezzz 1.0 alpha"
953 >first : accepted myname
953 <first : feature variants="normal"
953 >first : accepted variants
953 <first : feature colors=0
953 >first : accepted colors
953 <first : feature ics=1
953 >first : accepted ics
953 <first : feature name=0
953 >first : accepted name
953 <first : feature done=1
953 >first : accepted done
953 <first : ParseInput: accepted done
968 >first : new
random
968 >first : ics -
968 >first : level 40 40 0
968 >first : post
968 >first : hard
968 >first : ping 1
968 >first : force

Best wishes,
Leo.



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