Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 13:46:28 03/07/04
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On March 07, 2004 at 10:24:47, Jon Dart wrote: >I ran a 40 move/40 minute match between Postmodernist 1.010a and Arasan 7.4. >Hardware was an XP2500+, 64 MB Hash for Arasan, 44MB for PM. Arasan lost this >match, +3, -10, =7. Games are available at > >http://www.arasanchess.org/pm.pgn > >I haven't analyzed the games in detail. My general impression was that PM gained >greater mobility in several games and was able to win "positionally". For >example, in game 4, PM got doubled rooks and had the better position for most of >the game, but really won in the endgame where it was able to out-manouver Arasan >and win material. > >Game 18 looks like an opening book problem (18 .. Ne8 is the standard move, but >isn't in Arasan's small book). > >--Jon Hi Jon, Thanks for this report. Speaking of book issues, I have been experimenting with an improved "preferred" book for PostModernist. I have essentially got rid of the lines which I had been adding because I think PM has done Ok with them at ICC. Instead I have been inserting "bog-standard" lines. All this was done on Peter Berger's advice. The results have been *ASTONISHING*. For example, the current match score is: improvedpreferred 108.5 - 61.5 standardpreferred The previous match score was 158 - 119 standardpreferred before I stopped it. I would NEVER have imagined a result like it, and it has been VERY easy to do this. Andrew
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