Author: Uri Blass
Date: 18:34:14 04/12/03
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On April 12, 2003 at 21:19:19, Russell Reagan wrote: >On April 12, 2003 at 15:30:36, KIRK SEARS wrote: > >>Has anyone run a no book/engame tablebase tournament? This would be a very good >>test for Winboard engines. I wonder how many would play even this way? >> >>On a previous response it was mentioned that someone might have done this. > >I would also like to see a tournament like this. I would be interested to see >how some of the strong amateur engines fair against commercial engines when they >don't use a book or EGTB's. Some, like Vincent, believe that Ruffian is stronger >than Fritz in this situation (no opening books). I can tell you that I was not impressed by Ruffian based on some blitz tests with no book. (I used nunn match of some openings of 2 plies like 1.e4 e5,1.e4 c5,1.d4 d5,... and Ruffian1.0.1 lost against shredder7.04 13-11 when Ruffian had 15 minutes against 5 minutes of shredder7.04 on p850). Uri
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