Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 13:15:47 02/15/04
Congrats to the the Winner of the 13th international Paderborn Computer Chess Championships! Chrilly Donninger, Ulf Lorenz, Erdogan Günes - the multinational Hydra-team under the banner of the United Arab Emirates. Seems to be a perfect team ;-) Thanks to Ulf Lorenz as organizer and all other participants for that great social event - like a family reunion and a great time. Hydra is/becomes probably the dominating chess-hard-/software combination for the next time. FPGAs may have more potential for further speedup than GP-processors (still 30MHz), and the PCI-bus becomes a bottleneck doing three plies plus quiescence. They "easily" may use more like 8/16/32... instead of four dual xeons or whatever with two FPGA-cards each. Not to mention Chrilly's further improvements combined with Ulf's well-founded parallel know-how and Erdogan's unorthodox and vicious opening lines... But that will encourage others profis as well as amateurs to make further progress too - a new challange! The Hydra-Fritz score-graph from both sides was really amazing. Fritz had a kind of sinus-chart with a growing, rather huge amplitude and a period time of circa 12 moves iirc, Hydra showed an ascending straight line ;-) Congrats to the second, Fritz by Frans Morsch, Mathias Feist and the third, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen's Shredder, a bit unlucky this time with the book-line against Fritz. Not to forget Muntsin and Munjong Kolss and their Ikarus. Fourth place - best Amateur! IsiChess got very lucky 3.5/7. I consider Yace and SOS stronger than my program, and they had deserved a better score. But of course (bad) luck has huge influence in a seven round Swiss-tournament. About the games of IsiChess i'm a bit unsettled. Very weak games against Sos, Ikarus and Shredder and three "fitting heuristic" wins with thanks to the opponents. Matador's handling of the Mashall gambit was quite a bit "suicide". Comet overestimated his piece play and bishop pair against connected passers and Anaconda had to solve some fail lows, while IsiChess was convenient with ponder hits and "self"-play. Cheers, Gerd
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