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Subject: Re: Nowadays monoprocessor winner is not recognized at the WCCC ?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 04:27:10 12/03/03

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On December 03, 2003 at 06:34:05, Tim Foden wrote:

>On November 30, 2003 at 17:29:49, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>Back in the good old days when all the Affordable Home P.C. were monoprocessor,
>>the best Chess programs were combined with the best available single Processor
>>P.C. in order to have a chance of winning the World Computer Chess Championship.
>>But now we don't even give recognition to the Winner of the Monoprocessor
>>Program which was GREEN LIGHT by Tim Fodem. This was a great accomplishment,
>>since in order to win you have to at least win against
>>one of the program using much powerful system such as Dual Opteron. Both El
>>chinito and Green Light won a game against Deep Sjeng. In my Opinion List was
>>going to upset another of the big boys besides BRUTUS, but unfortunately it was
>>not given the chance.
>>
>>PS: Congratulations to Tim Foden for having the courage to enter knowing that
>>you were going to be facing Top Chess Programs using Super Computers.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Well, I can't say it took any courage I'm afraid.  :)  I was expecting to be
>fighting not to be 16th, rather than to be placed 5th, so it is kind of the
>other way around. :)
>
>Cheers, Tim.

Yes
It is a good surprising result espacially considering the fact that
greenlightchess3 is weaker than Crafty based on Leo's tournament result.

I do not believe that small changes in the evaluation can be a significant
improvement so it seems that except luck the opponents were not as strong as
could be expected and there were 4 participants that were one level above the
rest(Shredder,Fritz,Junior and Brutus)

I do not know what happpened to Deep Sjeng in the tournament.

The programmer claimed that there are improvements relative to Deep Sjeng1.5
and I expected the probability of it to finish behind Greenight as very small.

Maybe GCP can explain what happened.

Is the new version of Deep Sjeng better than Deep Sjeng1.5 and Deep Sjeng had
extremely bad luck or maybe the changes made it worse?

Uri



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