Author: Johan Hutting
Date: 14:03:59 10/21/02
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On October 21, 2002 at 11:34:33, Uri Blass wrote: >>No clue, if I see larsenVB and tscp playing in 3rd division I wonder what Celes >>does in 4th :) > >Simple answer >see >http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/his3rdedition.html > >Celes simply did not score well enough in the previous 4th division. > >The level to get to the 3th division is clearly better than tscp. >The level of tscp is not enough even to promote to the 4th division. > >You may ask Leo to use the last Celes but I doubt if it is going to be strong >enough to promote. Leo already has a copy of the latest delphi version. > >For the low divisions the level that is needed to promote is higher than the >level of the higher division. So I've noticed with engines like list, tao and knightdreamer around. >It is not going to be the case in the high division and part of the programs >that pronmoted to the first division went back to the second division. > >Abrok,Biglion,Knightdreamer,List,Rdchess,Tao and maybe gnuchess(if Leo finds it >stable) may fight for promotion. > >It seems that Celes needs to be better than one of them in order to promote. > >7th place may be also enough for pronmotion if Celes can beat Soldat. I already pointed out the insanity of this on the winboard forum. However, it's Leo's tournament and he's free to make up his rules. And well, maybe Celes is lucky :) >I admit that I did not analyze the games but it seemed to me that their problem >were after the opening and the d8->d5->d6 and few moves later->d8 line for black >does not seem to be a good line when I look at it. That's standard procedure in that line... idem dito in the Qa5 line, after c6 the queen usually returns to d8 or c7. >>>My latest movei(not public) has book and pondering >>>but my tests are almost always with no book when >>>I always change the >>>first move so I can get different games. >> >>hmmm, you'll still get alot of repetitions that way. > >If you play more than 40 games then I agree but if you play 40 games you get no >repetition when you always change the first move(the only way to get repetition >is changing the order of moves but it does not happen often when the first move >is 1.a4 or 1.f3(it can happen in 1.e4 e6 2.d4 to 1.d4 e6 2.e4 but I do not see >logical change from 1.a3 e5 2.e4 to 1.e4 e5 2.a3 You're serious about testing movei by opening with moves like 1.a3 and 1.h3 vs other engines?
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