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Subject: Re: christmas tournament begins this week-end, participants

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 06:45:08 11/07/98

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On November 07, 1998 at 09:13:02, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>
>Hi - i want to begin my christmas tournament this week-end.
>So far the participants are the following, elo's from my summer-tournament
>or latest ssdf-list.
>
> 1. HIARCS6                 2555    ----    GB
> 2. REBEL 10                2446    ----    NL
> 3. JUNIOR5 JUN.CTG         2661    ----    IS
> 4. CSTAL WIN95             2625    ----    GB
> 5. THE KING 2.55           2468    ----    NL
> 6. CHESS TIGER 11.7        2505    ----     F
> 7. NIMZO98 PADERBORN       2582    ----     A
> 8. CRAFTY 15.18            2455    ----   USA
> 9. GANDALF3                2473    ----   DAN
>
>Mark Uniacke said he would let hiarcs7 beta participate as soon as possible.
>Cstal is still a beta version.
>ChessMaster was replaced by the normal TASCBASE the King since the new
>chessmaster settings (pilz/faber) were not very effective and different in
>results than default.

Please remember that Johan de Koning recommends using the "active" play
style in the King 2.55.  What book settings will you use?

>Tiger 11.7 is the much stronger and better child of 11.5 that participated
>strong in my summer tournament.
>I am not so sure when or if nimzo/shredder3/genius6 participate, depends if they
>are ready and/or the programmers help me with beta-versions or when my
>commercial order arrives soon enough.
>Mchess8 is on the way to participate, will hopefully arrive soon enough.
>Diep 1.60 wanted to participate but i was unable to install it so far for
>whatever technical reasons. So - we are working.
>40/120 is the time control, as in the summer-tournament.
>I guess the level of this tournament is much higher than the summer-tournament.
>So it will be very interesting. A selection out of the summer-tournament
>participants = only the bests have the chance to participate here.
>Fritz was unable to qualify for this tournament, sorry. maybe next time, when it
>has more luck or is stronger.
>
>
>Comments ?
>Ideas ?
>Critics ?

Why do you use Crafty 15.18 rather than 16.0?

I look forward to seeing the games and results of your tournament.

Tord



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