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Subject: Re: I think that woodpusher is the surprise of the tournament

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 22:48:02 07/12/04

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On July 13, 2004 at 01:32:37, Uri Blass wrote:

>A program that scored less than 50% in paris 1997 and also used the slow P4 got
>better place than a new program like CrazyBishop(Crazybishop that played in the
>tournament is significantly better than the public version thanks to better
>search).
>
>Woodpusher drew with isichess and with Jonny that had superior hardware when
>these programs drew with Junior.
>
>I understood from the programmer of woodpusher that woodpusher is even not
>compiled with a good compiler(only visual c++ 5).
>
>The only change that he did for the tournament is changing the contempt factor
>in order to teach woodpusher to like a draw(draw is evaluated by woodpusher as 1
>pawn advantage).
>
>Uri

I can add that I did a search in google for that tournament and now my surprise
is even bigger because I did not know that Crazybishop also participated in
paris 1997 and performed better than woodpusher.

I see that the crazybishop scored 1/2 point more than woodpusher in paris
championship in 1997
For the table see http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/97wm$tix.htm

I felt bad after the result of movei compared to woodpusher1997 that suggested
that movei is even weaker than the middle of the table of 1997 programs.

Now I feel better because at least it scored better than something that is
better than the crazybishop of 1997.

Uri



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