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Subject: Re: Super Tournament III Qualifier (standings after 20 of 68 rounds)

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 06:13:49 07/20/04

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On July 20, 2004 at 08:27:02, Graham Banks wrote:

>On July 20, 2004 at 05:32:35, Joachim Rang wrote:
>
>>On July 20, 2004 at 03:34:25, Graham Banks wrote:
>>
>>>On July 20, 2004 at 01:09:49, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 20, 2004 at 00:15:56, Graham Banks wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>STANDINGS (after 20 of 68 rounds)
>>>>>
>>>>>Pharaon 2.62	- 14.0
>>>>>Tao 5.6		- 12.5
>>>>>List 512		- 12.5
>>>>>SOS 4		- 12.0
>>>>>Gandalf 5.1		- 11.5
>>>>>Delfi 4.5		- 11.5
>>>>>Deep Sjeng 1.6	- 11.0
>>>>>Little Goliath Revival-10.5
>>>>>El Chinito 3.25	- 10.5
>>>>>Thinker 4.6c	- 10.5
>>>>>Gothmog 1.0b7 	- 9.5
>>>>>Anaconda 1.6.2	- 9.0
>>>>>Rebel 12		- 8.5
>>>>>Yace 0.99.87	- 8.5
>>>>>Crafty 19.15	- 8.0
>>>>>Comet B68		- 8.0
>>>>>Slow Chess 2.93a	- 6.0
>>>>>Fruit 1.5		- 6.0
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     Hi Graham
>>>>     Still Pharaon 2.62 leading: what a surprise.
>>>>     And for me somewhat disappointing the behaviour
>>>>     of Crafty 19.15 and I am therefore wondering
>>>>     whether you are playing with the CB-version?
>>>>     Of course: still to less games played ......
>>>>     Kind regards
>>>>     Kurt [http://www.utzingerk.com]
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi Kurt,
>>>I'm using the CB version of Crafty 19.15. The wcrafty for AMD had scored 7/20
>>>before I replaced it with CB Crafty and reran all the games.
>>>Pharaon really seems to like the extra hash! In my previous 40/40 it was
>>>struggling down the other end of the table. Mind you, it was up against the top
>>>engines in that tournament.
>>>Graham.
>>
>>
>>Did you use the computer command in the crafty.rc file? Did you use the
>>Chessbase - GUI? Unfortunately the WB-Crafty is somehow crippled in its playing
>>strength in the chessbase-GUI do to the fact, that the WB2UCI-Commander sends
>>commands, which crafty interpretates like afer every move there starts a new
>>game. Do you now use the "asymmetric Evaluation" off?
>>
>>regards Joachim
>
>I am using the Deep Fritz GUI and I'm using the CB version of Crafty 19.15, so
>there is no crafty.rc file and no 'computer' command.
>I'm using the default settings under engine parameters.
>Graham.


the default ones are optimized against humans. There is an eval term "asymmetric
evaluation" which is by default on but should only be used against humans. It
corresponds with the computer command in the crafty.rc ini-file for the
WB-Version.

About a comparison between Crafty WB and Crafty CB you might find this post
interesting:

http://f23.parsimony.net/forum50826/messages/103359.htm

regards Joachim



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