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Subject: My experience with Assassin is quite different

Author: Ray Banks

Date: 23:39:09 10/31/04

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In my testing, Assassin seems to be very strong indeed.

My CM9000 personality testing has so far comprised Assassin, Alliance, R1, T05
and Judge II each playing 40 games against Shredder 8, Deep Fritz 8, Hiarcs 9
and Chess Tiger 15. 800 games (160 for each personality)
The results table is:

Assassin 79.5/160
R1 77.0/160
T05 74.5/160
Judge II 72.5/160
Alliance 70.0/160

I haven't finished yet - Assassin has just played Deep Junior 8, and beat it
21.0 - 19.0. Alliance is playing now and of course the rest will follow.

This is on a dual Athlon MP2800+, ponder on, 40 moves in 40 minutes repeating,
5-man tablebases, Fritz powerbook (optimised) with learning sliders at minimum.

So to conclude, under these conditions Assassin seems to be very strong indeed.
To have achieved basically a 50% record against some of the strongest engines
available is impressive.

After the Deep Junior 8 matches, I intend to add CM10th Creep into the mix by
playing all the catch-up matches, to see how it compares. After this, I intend
to keep going with at least one or two more engines so that in a couple of
months time we have a pretty good picture of the comparative performance of the
various personalities against a range of other engines.

If I was starting a tourney today, and wanted to include a CM9000 personality,
Assassin would be my number one choice.



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