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Subject: CEGT - Chess Engine Grand Tournament

Author: Christian Koch

Date: 07:41:37 02/18/05


Hi all :-),

The CEGT websites are up and running.

- http://www.koch-in-holm.de/CEGT/
- http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/


CEGT (Chess Engine Grand Tournament) is currently in progress with a lot of
double round robins by  Heinz van Kempen and me with a time control
correspondent to AEGT conditions (that means 40/40 repeated adapted to 2 Ghz CPU
via Crafty benchmark), so that we can combine the rating lists and have a better
comparison commercials vs. amateurs.

Tournaments are running on five faster computers for weeks already, but we
wanted to wait until we could add the new Shredder 9 and also replaced ProDeo
1.0 after more than 100 games by the new and stronger version ProDeo 1.1.

There are also other aims we have. Statistically relevant results with many
games, that is why we do not use tournament time controls. These games here
anyway with repeated time control sometimes last hours.

Additionally we want to have a comparison of books. So Heinz is taking Nunn 2
Suite and maybe later Noomen positions and I take shorter books and Nunn 1
Suite. The reason not to take own books is that we do not want  to have only
games that are already in late middle game or even early endgame stage after the
book moves and avoid also own books as they are in many cases adapted to certain
opponents.

Furthermore we want to give statistics over the time in Excel sheets, showing
the performance of each engine with open, half-open and closed games and some
other things, for example:

- which engine performs better with Nunn/Noomen or short books

- difference in ELO between best professional and best amateur engine, where at
this point it is not clear if this will be ProDeo, List, Aristarch, Fruit or the
new SOS hopefully coming after Paderborn

- which commercial engines does best against the amateurs and which amateur
engine does best against the commercials

- how many amateurs are doing better than the worst commercial in CEGT (probably
this will be Patriot)

- which engine performs best in open, half-open and closed games

- which engine won the most short games (tactical strength)

- which had the most draws

We also want to see how many games are needed to have more or less the same
range of engines in our respective overall crosstables, if this will happen over
many hundred games per engine.

Best regards
Christian



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