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

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 08:31:01 01/30/04

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On January 30, 2004 at 10:54:04, Uri Blass wrote:

>On January 30, 2004 at 10:04:06, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>
>>On January 30, 2004 at 09:47:34, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>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
>>
>>Does Chessmaster have large spatial control terms? Yes.
>>Does Chessmaster have good kingsafety? Yes.
>>Does Chessmaster have a lot of extensions? Yes.
>>
>>I don't think I mentioned nps.
>>
>>anthony
>
>I do not claim to know what chessmaster has or what slowchess has.
>I only think that comparing slowchess with chessmaster is wrong when chessmaster
>is significantly better.
>
>Uri
>
>Uri

I don't see why.  Zappa is very much in the style of Fritz, only about 500 elo
weaker.

anthony



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