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Subject: Re: My Pick for Strongest Amateur Program ("SlowChess!!!!!!) Commercial?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:47:34 01/30/04

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On January 30, 2004 at 09:04:27, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>On January 30, 2004 at 02:14:05, Nolan Denson wrote:
>
>>Guys i need to let you all know there is a new King on the horizon.  I have
>>never seen a program play so well.  I was playing on ICC with a version of
>>Pepito .. Its was basically beating almost all the programs it faced until i
>>played against a program called SlowChess.  This program easily beat Pepito 3
>>games in a row.  But you may be saying to yourself but Pepito isn't very strong
>>... well up until that point it was beating a few of the commercial programs ...
>>so i decided .. to go get this slowchess program .. i loaded it up and Wow .. it
>>is super super strong. SlowChess is being played by Deuteronomy
>>
>>Check out the Game Below .. you will see the power of this Program. I have never
>>seen a program play so well.
>>
>>Dhaka (2666) vs. DEUTERONOMY (2622) --- 2004.01.30 01:49:30
>>Rated Blitz match, initial time: 5 minutes, increment: 5 seconds
>>
>>  1.  e4       (0:00)    e5       (0:00)
>>  2.  Nc3      (0:00)    Nf6      (0:00)
>>  3.  Nf3      (0:00)    Nc6      (0:00)
>>  4.  d4       (0:00)    exd4     (0:00)
>>  5.  Nd5      (0:00)    Nxe4     (0:13)
>>  6.  Bc4      (0:00)    Bb4+     (0:13)
>>  7.  c3       (0:00)    dxc3     (0:13)
>>  8.  O-O      (0:00)    O-O      (0:13)
>>  9.  Qb3      (0:00)    cxb2     (0:09)
>> 10.  Bxb2     (0:00)    Ba5      (0:13)
>> 11.  Qc2      (0:00)    Nc5      (0:13)
>> 12.  Nf4      (0:42)    d6       (0:00)
>> 13.  h4       (0:31)    Ne7      (0:00)
>> 14.  Nh5      (0:13)    Bf5      (0:00)
>> 15.  Qc1      (0:21)    b5       (0:12)
>> 16.  Bxg7     (0:06)    bxc4     (0:06)
>> 17.  Qh6      (0:05)    f6       (0:07)
>> 18.  Nxf6+    (0:11)    Rxf6     (0:01)
>> 19.  Bxf6     (0:15)    Ne6      (0:00)
>> 20.  g4       (0:16)    Bd3      (0:00)
>> 21.  Ng5      (0:48)    Qf8      (0:00)
>> 22.  Qxf8+    (0:14)    Nxf8     (0:00)
>> 23.  Bxe7     (0:09)    Ng6      (0:04)
>> 24.  Bf6      (0:10)    Rf8      (0:04)
>> 25.  Bb2      (0:05)    c3       (0:10)
>> 26.  Ba3      (0:04)    Bxf1     (0:14)
>> 27.  Rxf1     (0:00)    Rf4      (0:14)
>> 28.  f3       (0:14)    Ra4      (0:00)
>> 29.  Bc1      (0:10)    Rxa2     (0:05)
>> 30.  Ne4      (0:08)    Nxh4     (0:12)
>> 31.  Bg5      (0:02)    Ng6      (0:08)
>> 32.  Kh1      (0:02)    c2       (0:07)
>> 33.  Ng3      (0:08)    Ne5      (0:10)
>> 34.  Ne2      (0:04)    d5       (0:06)
>> 35.  Bf6      (0:21)    Nd3      (0:09)
>> 36.  Bg5      (0:43)    Rb2      (0:00)
>> 37.  Nd4      (0:10)    Bb6      (0:10)
>> 38.  Ne2      (0:01)    Nf2+     (0:09)
>> 39.  Kg2      (0:02)    c1=N     (0:10)
>> 40.  Rxc1     (0:12)    Rxe2     (0:10)
>> 41.  Kf1      (0:01)    Rb2      (0:09)
>> 42.  Re1      (0:07)    h5       (0:03)
>> 43.  Re8+     (0:06)    Kf7      (0:04)
>> 44.  Re7+     (0:05)    Kg6      (0:05)
>> 45.  Bf4      (0:09)    hxg4     (0:11)
>> 46.  fxg4     (0:07)    d4       (0:03)
>> 47.  Re6+     (0:27)    Kf7      (0:00)
>> 48.  Re2      (0:06)    Rxe2     (0:05)
>> 49.  Kxe2     (0:32)    Nxg4     (0:00)
>> 50.  Bd2      (0:07)    c5       (0:11)
>> 51.  Kd3      (0:00)    Ke6      (0:11)
>> 52.  Be1      (0:25)
>>       {White resigns} 0-1
>>Statistics for SlowChess2(C)         On for: 2:07     Idle:   10
>>
>>          rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
>>Bullet      2584        498    78    58   634   2711 (24-Jan-2004)
>>Blitz       2719        734   164   114  1012   2832 (11-Jan-2004)
>>Standard    2536        560   208   149   917   2576 (13-Jan-2004)
>>
>> 1: Hardware: Athlon 64 FX   96 MB Hash
>> 2: Software: SlowChess v2.89b
>> 3:
>> 4: CPU is also used to run other programs at the same time.
>> 5: http://www.3dkingdoms.com/chess/slow.htm
>> 6: Every once in a while accepts or offers draws in the endgame.
>> 7: I'd like to thank titled players for playing SlowChess.
>>
>> Email  : ogre@3dkingdoms.com
>
>I've also noticed that Slowchess is pretty strong.
>
>Slowchess is what you get when you combine large spatial control terms, pretty
>good kingsafety, and lot of extensions.  Sort of like Chessmaster, I think.
>
>anthony

As far as I know slowchess is a fast searcher.
The name is only that it was originally slow.

It is not something like chessmaster.

Uri



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