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Subject: Re: The Great CM9000 Showdown at 40 in 80 (FINAL STANDINGS)

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 05:56:56 04/17/05

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On April 17, 2005 at 08:47:01, Graham Banks wrote:

>On April 17, 2005 at 08:40:18, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On April 17, 2005 at 06:20:21, Graham Banks wrote:
>>
>>>THE GREAT CM9000 SHOWDOWN!
>>>
>>>Athlon XP1900+
>>>128mb hash each
>>>3,4,5 men tablebases
>>>Ponder on
>>>No opening books
>>>42 rounds (2 cycles) at 40 moves in 80 minutes repeating
>>>
>>>
>>>FINAL STANDINGS
>>>
>>>25.5	- Minotaur
>>>24.5	- Slayer 2b
>>>24.0	- Gladiator
>>>24.0	- Mv2.5
>>>23.5	- SKR
>>>23.0	- Pillen
>>>22.5	- Apex
>>>22.5	- TO5
>>>22.0	- Judge II
>>>22.0	- Mapi
>>>21.5	- R1
>>>20.5	- Surak 8c
>>>20.5	- Slayer
>>>20.0	- Yoda
>>>19.5	- Justice
>>>19.5	- R2
>>>18.5	- Judge
>>>18.5	- Assassin
>>>18.5	- RIX
>>>18.0	- Default
>>>17.5	- Minotaur 2
>>>16.0	- Alliance
>>
>>
>>      Hi Graham
>>      Great work but can we now be sure that CM9_Minitaur is
>>      the best CM9-Setting vs non CM-engines? How many such
>>      games have been played so far? What about the score?
>>      This should be clear before you start a new CM10k-
>>      tourney otherwise your work is more ore less useless.
>>      Kind regards
>>      Kurt
>
>
>Hi Kurt,
>
>no, we can't be clear that Minotaur is the best setting against other programs.
>As I've stated all along this tournament is just one piece of the puzzle. Ray's
>testing against other programs is a further piece of the puzzle. I don't think
>that anybody can state with any certainty which is the best overall CM9000
>setting taking all conditions into account.
>This was a tournament that many had expressed an interest in seeing happen and I
>was happy to oblige! Your views against such tournaments have been stated on
>numerous occasions and should be well known by now,
>
>Regards, Graham.
>
>PS - I'm keeping a keen eye on CM10th Yoda's performance in your tournament. At
>the moment it seems comparable with CM10th Cobra's performance in Ray's
>tournament.


      Hi Graham
      We are so far somewhat disappointed about the performance
      of CM10k_Yoda 2.5 in our RK 2005 tournament but there are
      still a lot of games to go and things may change.
      Kurt



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