Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 14:15:44 07/02/03
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On July 02, 2003 at 16:46:44, Chessfun wrote:
>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.
That would be a good idea too. But chessfriend Rolf likes it more
the way we do. And I let him the choice.
Kurt
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