Author: Chessfun
Date: 13:46:44 07/02/03
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On July 02, 2003 at 16:11:20, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >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 It's a shame after so much work. However the only option I think. The new tournament sounds interesting, why not do it the way Enrique once did. Play one 10 game match at a time and post the match result and games!. Naturally your choice but I always found that especially interesting. Whichever you choose good luck. Sarah.
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