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Subject: Re: Surak's Chess Tourney updated. Now 72.450 games!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:58:14 04/28/03

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On April 28, 2003 at 01:16:09, Axel Schumacher wrote:

>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)

What does the above mean?  17.13 is a couple of years old at least.  the 19.x
versions have been out for many months now...




>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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