Author: Graham Banks
Date: 12:25:47 09/26/04
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On September 26, 2004 at 06:52:15, George Tsavdaris wrote: >On September 25, 2004 at 23:08:44, Graham Banks wrote: > >>These are the official final standings after all games with unsatisfactory >>openings (due to the powerbook settings used) were rerun. The affected games >>were rerun using the powerbook with optimised settings. >> >> >>STANDINGS >> >>56.0 - CM9000 Judge II >>50.5 - CM 10th Edition (default) >>48.5 - List 512 >>46.5 - Pro Deo 1.0 (original) >> >>44.5 - Delfi 4.5 > > I think it is more fair to have Pharaon 3.00b to play a 12 game match or >something with Delfi 4.5. When a tournament starts with a set of rules A, i find >it wrong while the tournament is running to change the set of rules to something >different. > At the beginning you said that the first 5 will go to the final. Now this has >changed. Bad choice in my humble opinion. > >>43.0 - Gandalf 5.1 > > So after all, Gandalf 5.1 is out of the final, while before you rerun the >bad-opening games it was inside. Hi George, you've made a good point. The reasons for my decision were that originally I'd only intended for CM10th Creep to play in the final, but the strong performance of CM9000 Judge II prompted me to include CM9000 Alliance (hopefully even stronger) also. SOS 4 was actually the unlucky engine, finishing ahead of both Gandalf 5.1 and Delfi 4.5 before the games were rerun. Gandalf 5.1 was the only engine I had problems with (time issues), so I was inclined to leave it out of the final due to this. I decided to go with 12 engines for the final as 44 rounds at 40 in 120 will take a long time as is. 14 engines meant 52 rounds and I'm not sure I could face this! Pharaon 3.00 has had excellent results to date in Olivier's Chess Waes tournament at longer time controls and actually leads after 9 rounds against all the top programs, so I felt that there would be a lot of interest in a further showing before its release. > Why not use the Judge II settings? After the stunning results it had, it would >be VERY interesting to have it play against S8, DF8, H9, DJ8,...etc to see how >it does with the big guys. > And what are these Alliance settings? CM9000 Alliance settings are based on a combination of modified R1, Judge II and Assassin settings, so Wilhelm and myself are the creators. P=1.0 N=3.2 B=3.2 R=5.3 Q=9.8 (own=9.9) CC=115 Mob=140 KS=170 PP=135 PW=140 Selectivity=12 AD=0 MP=0 >>All engines will use their own opening book where able. CM9000 Alliance will use >>the CM8000 book, > >How are you going to do that? I know that inside Chessbase GUI, Chessmaster >can't use it's own book. David Dahlem provided me with a copy of the CM8000 book which had been painstakingly converterted move by move into the correct format for use under Chessbase. >Looking forward to the final. It would be difficult for all the engines..... Me too George, me too! I will post the games in text format round by round and hopefully Kurt might allow the tournament to be hosted on his website too. Regards, Graham.
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