Author: Axel Schumacher
Date: 22:16:09 04/27/03
News: -over 200 new engine-versions - 60 new engines - new Chessmaster settings, logos - extra TOP 50 amateur ranking - short engine report Surak's Trophy: The Trophy is an ongoing engine vs. engine tournament, played on several computers (minimum hardware pentium II, 350mhz: maximum: Athlon 2100+). Games played so far: #72.460 GUI's: The tournament is played within the following GUI's: Fritz, Winboard, Arena, Shredder-Classic and Chessmaster. Number of Engine-versions: #671 Time-controls: Mixed. Mostly Blitz (5m+1s); a lot of Rapids (10m+1s) and some games with long time-control (40m/40moves) or tournament-time. Books: Remis-book (Draw-book) or Kurzbuch (Short-book). Tourney-Page: http://www.grailmaster.com/misc/chess/comp/compindex.html or Chess-Page: http://www.grailmaster.com/misc/chess/chess.html or Homepage: www.grailmaster.com Here a small excerpt of one of the rating-lists (Best-versions list): Place/Engine/Elo/Games --------------------------------------- 1. Deep Fritz 7 2761 395 2. Chess Tiger 14.0 2732 2301 3. Hiarcs 8 2706 1024 4. CM9000 Grailmaster7 2700 219 (best CM-Setting) 5. Ruffian 1.0.1 2688 1092 (best Amateur !) 6. Deep Junior 6.0 2681 1613 7. Shredder 7.0 2674 354 8. Green Light Chess 3.00 2653 90 (!!! Takes the 2nd Amateur place.) 9. SOS.3 for Arena 2642 325 10. Pepito 1.59UCI 2630 268 (greatly improved !) 11. Delfi 4.1 2628 185 (Soon a Top-engine; I'm sure) 12. Gandalf 4.32UCI 2627 576 13. Crafty 17.13 2626 786 (long time no improvement) 14. List 504 2609 430 15. Zarkov 4.5e 2607 315 16. Little Goliath 2000 v3.9 2603 270 17. Smarthink 0.15b1 2601 116 (also a rising star) 18. Nimzo2000b EN 2601 80 19. Aristarch 4.4 2598 502 20. Yace 0.99.50 2591 403 .... 196. Pyotr Novice 2.6 1815 143 (I'm 100% against it :-) ) Cheers Axel
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