Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 13:11:20 07/02/03
We have decided to restart our RK 2003 tournament. The reason is a message of Michael Drexel at CCC and our reply http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?304269 In the meantime we have found out why from the 84 games so far played in our database 77 games were with 1.d4 and only 5 games with 1.e4. Chessfriend Rolf Bühler worked with the write protected opening book remis.ctg but "forgot" to use the book option "Reset Weights" before starting the tournament. And as a result of the many won games played by The King with 1.d4, this move had a much too great probability in the book. Under the circumstances we feel it would be best to completely cancel our tournament and to restart it under the following conditions: 8 engines, 10 rounds, 280 games Athlon 1.3/64 MB hash for each engine Time control: 120'/60+60'/30+30' ponder=off, 3-/4-men EGTB all engines with own (write protected) books, no book learning book options = use book, tournament book, optimize, minimum games 3 TK 3.23 with (write protected) book remis.ctg, weights reset to original All games played under Hiarcs8-GUI Tester: Rolf Bühler / Kurt Utzinger We hope that this time especialle Junior 8 will be able to demonstrate that it belongs to the top engines of the world. It may indeed be that it was a disadvantage for this program to always play 1.d4. Details [results, cross table, games] can almost daily be found at our homepage http://www.utzingerkurt.com/RK2003.htm Kurt
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