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Subject: Re: New big tournament "5Moves 2004" (90m+30s)

Author: Stephen Ham

Date: 14:52:04 12/23/03

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On December 23, 2003 at 16:55:10, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>On December 23, 2003 at 13:54:53, John Charles wrote:
>
>>Looking forward to this tournament!
>>Where do you find the inspiration for these great events?
>>
>>
>>JC
>
>
>     I liked computerchess from the very beginning
>     and still have fun ... and a good friend who
>     is running his machines ... most of the time
>     I am studying/commenting the games, creating
>     crosstables, pgn and working on our homepage.
>     Kurt

Hi Kurt,

Yes indeed, I'm truly impressed by the quality of your tournaments. Unlike "Joe
Blow's" tournament, where the results are based upon rapid time controls, little
is learned by the result. Were "Joe Blow" to replay his tournament, there'd be
different results and still there's be no value added.

Instead, I was highly impressed by your NBE Tournament and the previous one that
tested positions selected bt GM Nunn. To my way of seeing things, one can draw
meaningful conclusions from the results of your tournaments regarding the
strong/weak points of various engines.

Thank you for sharing your results with us, Kurt. Thanks too for trying to test
Rebel. That's an engine that doesn't get enough good PR. While I think the
engine isn't on the same level as Shredder 7.04 and a few others, it has a
wonderfully human playing style and finds human-like moves at longer time
controls. I wouldn't be a bit surprised, given it's strenth at longer
time-controls, if just a little modification (perhaps a faster search speed) by
Ed would push it over the edge and onto the top tier with Shredder, etc.

Happy Holidays!

Stephen



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