Author: Axel Schumacher
Date: 20:24:09 04/28/03
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On April 28, 2003 at 21:58:14, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... Yes, of course. But THIS list (there're others on the page) shows only the engine version which ranks highest. However, the newer Crafty-versions did not perform as well as your old Crafty (at least as fast time controls; although the last version is getting better again): Crafty-Version____Elo-Performance___# of games ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crafty 16.1 2524 94 Crafty 17.13 2626 786 Crafty 17.14 2598 125 Crafty 18.10 2621 665 Crafty 18.12 2626 359 Crafty 18.13 2562 231 Crafty 18.14 2598 242 Crafty 18.15 2604 327 Crafty 19.00 2470 117 Crafty 19.01 2585 304 Crafty 19.03 2602 224 Cheers Axel > > > > >>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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