Author: Graham Banks
Date: 00:41:16 02/14/05
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On February 14, 2005 at 02:33:41, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >On February 13, 2005 at 22:54:27, Graham Banks wrote: > >>On February 13, 2005 at 20:14:21, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>On February 13, 2005 at 13:46:25, Graham Banks wrote: >>> >>>>THE GREAT CM9000 SHOWDOWN! >>>> >>>>Athlon XP1900+ >>>>128mb hash each >>>>3,4,5 men tablebases >>>>Ponder on >>>>No opening books >>>>34 rounds (2 cycles) at 40 moves in 80 minutes repeating >>>> >>>> >>>>Standings after Round 1 >>>> >>>>1.0 - Mapi >>>>1.0 - Minotaur >>>>1.0 - Pillen >>>>1.0 - Slayer 2b >>>>0.5 - Alliance >>>>0.5 - Assassin >>>>0.5 - Judge >>>>0.5 - Judge II >>>>0.5 - Justice >>>>0.5 - RIX >>>>0.5 - SKR >>>>0.5 - Slayer >>>>0.5 - Surak 8c >>>>0.5 - TO5 >>>>0.0 - Gladiator >>>>0.0 - Minotaur 2 >>>>0.0 - R1 >>>>0.0 - R2 >>> >>> >>>Can you also include the original CM9000 without personality, for strength >>>comparison. >>> >>>Jorge >> >> >>That was my plan originally, but somebody requested that I include Gladiator, so >>I left out Default to accommodate this request. >>Everybody knows that Default doesn't hack it with most or all of these settings, >>especially at longer time controls on faster machines. >>Default is included in the 40 moves in 2 hours tournament that I'm running on an >>old P3 450. Even here it's not faring so well! I'll post the result of that >>tournament soon (9 settings, 80 rounds). >> >>Graham. > > > This was a wrong decision in my opinion. It could be > that default plays comparatively stronger vs internal > CM-settings than vs other engines. I remember my earliest > tests with CM8k and different settings when default was > almost best and eventually stronger than most other settings. > Kurt > Kurt If people feel strongly enough, I'll add Default at the end of the tournament. Should provide free points for most if not all under the conditions of this tournament! Graham.
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