Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 04:10:47 05/25/04
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On May 25, 2004 at 06:41:31, paul bedrey wrote:
>On May 25, 2004 at 02:07:19, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>We are planning to play a long amateur tournament
>>time control 90m+30s, ponder=off, using Wb2Uci.exe,
>>under Fritz8-GUI (or perhaps Arena-GUI) with
>>8 participants under the following conditions:
>>
>>- own book must be available for each engine
>>- access to EGTB possible
>>- no commercial version of the engines on the market
>>- only versions released for public (no change during tournament)
>>
>>and are now wondering which are the strongest engines we should/could
>>use in this long tournament over 70 rounds whereby two (2) programs may
>>not belong to the best ones provided they play a particular interesting
>>style. In this respect: we have already reserved a place for Gothmog 0.4.8.
>>Considering these conditions we see that no List, no Ktulu, no Ruffian
>>can participate. I am awaiting your suggestions for this tournament
>>possibly with explanations why engine X should be included.
>>Kurt
>
>Aristarch
>SOS
>Smarthink
>El Chinito
>Delfi
>Crafty
>Yace
Is is not said that there would be a great gap in
playing strength between Crafty using ponder=off
or ponder=on. Since our matches are always played
on single PC's with ponder=off, I fear to hear
complaints like "Crafty with ponder=off is not
a serious match".
Kurt
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