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Subject: Re: Tournament update

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 07:20:47 01/19/99

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On January 19, 1999 at 09:48:42, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>On January 19, 1999 at 09:04:52, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>
>>On January 19, 1999 at 06:03:59, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>>
>>>Nimzo 99a and Shredder 3 tied 5-5. Next match, Shredder 3 - Genius 6.
>>>
>>>Two PII-400/256, auto232, 40 moves in 40 minutes.
>>>
>>>        H7   J5    M8   T11   F532 R10   F5  N99a   G6   CR   S3  TOTAL  Elo
>>>H7(*)  ---   4    3.5    4    4.5   7    8   6.5    8   7.5   6   59.0    59
>>>J5      6   ---    6    6.5   5.5   5   4.5   5    3.5  8.5  5.5  56.0    38
>>>M8     6.5   4    ---   5.5   3.5  5.5   5    7    6.5   7   5.5  56.0    38
>>>Ti      6   3.5   4.5   ---    5    6   5.5  6.5    6    7   5.5  55.5    36
>>>F532   5.5  4.5   6.5    5    ---   4   4.5   5     7    7   6.5  55.5    36
>>>R10     3    5    4.5    4     6   ---  5.5   5     6   5.5   4   48.5    -9
>>>F5      2   5.5    5    4.5   5.5  4.5  ---   4    5.5   8    4   48.5    -9
>>>N99a   3.5   5     3    3.5    5    5    6   ---   5.5  6.5   5   48.0   -12
>>>G6      2   6.5   3.5    4     3    4   4.5  4.5   ---   4        36.0   -63
>>>CR(**) 2.5  1.5    3     3     3   4.5   2   3.5    6   ---       29.0  -116
>>>S3      4   4.5   4.5   4.5   3.5   6    6    5               --- 38.0     0
>>>
>>>(*) A beta version of Hiarcs 7 with an alpha opening book played in the matches
>>>against Junior 5, Tiger 11.7.5, Mchess 8, Rebel 10 and Fritz 5.
>>>
>>>(**) Crafty 16.1 is playing as an engine for Nimzo 99. Because of a bug in the
>>>interface, Crafty clears its hashtables after every move it makes and therefore
>>>it is playing handicapped in this tournament.
>>
>>This is in fact true for all of the chessbase engines.
>
>Nope...
>
> BTW, I wouldn't call it
>>"bug" because it's a - may be unfortunate - design decision for the gui.
>
>It is a bug. Crafty 16.3 doesn't clear hashtables with new move. What you say
>applies to engine-engine playing within Fritz (or Junior, or Nimzo), but not
>when playing on separate machines through auto232, as in my tournament.

Admittedly, I'd checked this in engine-engine matches on one machine, and I
assumed it's always this way. Could be that you are right. I can easily check by
including some log output into my CB-engine. Or are you 100% sure, then I
wouldn't try ?
(Thank god, I didn't offer a bet this time.)

Uli
>
>Enrique
>
>>Regards, Uli
>>
>>>
>>>Enrique



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