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Subject: Re: RK 2003 [120'/60] Restart of tournament

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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