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Subject: Re: Amateurs vs. Professionals

Author: F. Jermann

Date: 10:30:49 12/13/98

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On December 13, 1998 at 05:49:00, Alois Ganter wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I played another engine tournament with Fritz532. This feature is fun.
>
>Crafty was amateur champion in my last tournament. Now the professional engines
>Fritz, Junior and Hiarcs take part. Crafty also is very strong specially against
>weaker engines.
>
>
>Amateurs and professionals 1998 (60min 233MMX)
>
>                      1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  0
>1   Fritz 5.32        ** ½0 1½ 1½ 11 11 11 11 11 11  15.5/18
>2   Junior 5.0        ½1 ** 10 11 10 ½1 1½ 11 1½ 11  14.0/18
>3   Hiarcs 6.0        0½ 01 ** 11 1½ 1½ 1½ 01 11 ½1  12.5/18  100.00
>4   Crafty 16.1       0½ 00 00 ** 11 11 11 11 11 11  12.5/18  78.75
>5   The Crazy Bishop  00 01 0½ 00 ** 1½ 10 10 ½1 11   8.5/18
>6   Gromit            00 ½0 0½ 00 0½ ** 11 1½ 0½ 11   7.5/18  46.50
>7   Comet A97         00 0½ 0½ 00 01 00 ** 1½ 11 11   7.5/18  43.25
>8   Doctor? 3.0       00 00 10 00 01 0½ 0½ ** ½½ 10   5.0/18  35.50
>9   Fritz 1.20        00 0½ 00 00 ½0 1½ 00 ½½ ** 1½   5.0/18  30.50
>10  EXchess 2.51      00 00 ½0 00 00 00 00 01 0½ **   2.0/18
>

1	Fritz 5.32		2687	37
2	Fritz 5.00		2601	35
3	Fritz 3.10		2594	7
4	Hiarcs 6.0		2462	36
5	Crafty 16.1		2428	20
6	Fritz 1.20		2417	15
7	Comet A96		2374	14
8	Doctor? 3.0		2365	21
9	EXchess 2.50		2322	20
10	Comet A97		2310	14
11	F.Jermann (Human!)	2158	17



>
>Here is the beauty price of this tournament:
>
>Fritz 5.32 - Comet A97
>
>1.d4 Sf6 2.c4 e6 3.Sc3 d5 4.Lg5 Le7 5.e3 0-0 6.Sf3 Sbd7 7.Tc1 c6 8.Ld3 dxc4
>9.Lxc4 Sd5 10.Lxe7 Dxe7 11.0-0 Sxc3 12.Txc3 e5 13.Dc2 exd4 14.exd4 Sb6 15.Te1
>Df6 16.Lb3 Ld7 17.Se5 Lf5 18.Dd2 Dd6 19.Lxf7+! Txf7 20.Sxf7 Kxf7 21.Tf3 Dd7
>22.Dg5 g6 23.g4 Tg8 24.Te5 Tg7 25.gxf5 Kg8 26.f6 Tf7 27.Tfe3 Dd6 28.Te8+ 1-0
>
>and mate in six.
>
>Ranking ("Create elo start list" in Fritz) after two tournaments:
>
>1	Fritz 5.32		2690	18
>2	Junior 5.0		2597	18
>3	Hiarcs 6.0		2527	18
>4	Crafty 16.1		2487	32
>5	The Crazy Bishop	2375	32
>6	Comet 		        2364	32
>7	Gromit			2333	32
>8	Doctor? 3.0		2237	32
>9	Fritz 1.20		2237	18
>10	EXchess 2.51		2175	32
>11	GNUchess		2150	14
>12	SSEchess		2026	14
>
>Fritz has won all games against all engines from the amateur tournament so his
>rating has overshoot. Dont take ratings to seriously.
>
>Alois

I have performed some tournaments on a P200MMX at 5min/game:
The results are very similar. F5.32 has won ALL tournaments including those at
which only the strongest engines took part.

1	Fritz 5.32		2687	37
2	Fritz 5.00		2601	35
3	Fritz 3.10		2594	7
4	Hiarcs 6.0		2462	36
5	Crafty 16.1		2428	20
6	Fritz 1.20		2417	15
7	Comet A96		2374	14
8	Doctor? 3.0		2365	21
9	EXchess 2.50		2322	20
10	Comet A97		2310	14
11	Me (Human!)	        2158	17

So far, my impression is that Fritz 5.32 is by far the strongest engine in
blitz! Maybe this holds on tournament time controls, too. Look at the ratings of
Fritz 5.00, Junior 5.0 and HIARCS 6.0: almost the same as on the SSDF list!!! I
think the new leader of the next list (if included) will be Fritz 5.32. My first
impression is that Fritz 5.32 play more aggressive than Fritz 5.00 and has
deeper positional understanding without loosing tactical strength.

The new GUI features are great, but even in the Dec. update there are many bugs.
Especially with the calculation of scores and the human games in engine
tournaments. Often the GUI forgets the time controls. Instead of 5/game, I had
to play 5s av. (These games are not evaluated in the list above!). Often the
engine simply does not move in these cases! Many of the new functions seem to be
very unstable. It seems more to be beta version. Nevertheless, I think it will
be one of my favourite chess programs. It is fun to ply against so much
different opponents in a computer tournament! FJ



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