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Subject: Re: Mini Blitz Tourney in progress

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 22:04:30 03/08/03

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On March 09, 2003 at 00:19:35, Uri Blass wrote:

>On March 08, 2003 at 23:11:11, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>I'm testing several engines for the next big 40/moves/2 hours tourney.  The
>>table below is confusing because CB chose to show the scores from "white's
>>perspective" - Fritz 7 played black in the first round and won.  So the total
>>points are are right.  The results here do not mean anything, I'm testing some
>>engines that will play in the next tourney - Movei , Wildcat and Deep Sjeng to
>>name a few .  But they are interesting nonetheless.
>>
>>This a 5 round swiss with 32 participants.
>
>Some questions:
>
>1)Did you use the same opening book for all engines?(like your real tournaments)


yes
>2)Do you plan to test at x minutes/40 moves?(it is important to verify that
>engines do not have problems in that time control).

good point - I have not finalized the engines yet -- I will run another test for
tc -- here I just wanted to make sure they could run ...I possibly might be
adding a few moreengines -- like sos, aristarch, pharon,netjet ,lambchoop ...so
I need to test those as well ...I'm concerned about lambchop due to the author's
notes on his webpage -- we shall see ...

>
>I know that movei can work under winboard at that time control but I never
>tested under Fritz gui and I do not want bad surprises at that time control in
>the last moment(I may send you a later version 24 hours before the tournament
>starts but I do not plan to change time handling if there are no special
>problems that are only typical to Fritz)
>
>Uri



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