Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Forcing Top Programs to play FRC position and which play stronger !

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 05:51:07 06/21/03

Go up one level in this thread


On June 21, 2003 at 08:45:53, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On June 21, 2003 at 05:32:34, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>I Forced Chess Tiger 15 CB version, Hiarcs 8 and Fritz 8.0.23 to play under
>>shoot out from this position:
>>
>>What I found out was that Chess Tiger 15 CB and Hiarcs 8 play much better than
>>Fritz 8.0.23 under Shootout. For some reason Fritz 8.0.23 played the first two
>>moves horrible 1.f3 f6 2.Kf2? Kf7? I have not tried Fritz8 8.0.0.8 yet.
>>
>>My conclusion is that you can set up the initial FRC position by using the Arena
>>FRC GUI and transfer it manually to any top Chessbase program and even challenge
>>strong humans players in ICC. If any of you would like to try this idea please
>>let us know about your finding, but you would have to probably play longer than
>>30 minutes to be able to transfer the moves manually against your human opponent
>>on the ICC.
>>
>>
>>[D]bqnrkbrn/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/BQNRKBRN w KQkq -
>
>
>just curious ...Forced Chess Tiger 15 CB version, Hiarcs 8 and Fritz 8.0.23 to
>play under shoot out from this position...thanks
>
>btw - I save the pos above as a pgn file and then selected the pgn file as the
>opening database for the engine match to force F8 to play Crafty from the abobe
>position.

That was a clever way to do it.

Pichard



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.