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Subject: Re: Shuffle Chess Tournament

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 18:39:42 05/05/05

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On May 05, 2005 at 21:16:11, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On May 05, 2005 at 21:08:25, Marc D wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>
>>Would it be of interest doing Shuffle Chess Tournaments with selected
>>Engines and post the results here?
>
>It would be interesting.
>
>>It would show how good these engines are without opening book and
>>just plain chess knowledge.
>
>I doubt if that is what it would show.
>
>>So let me see your thoughts about it
>
>I think it would be better to play computers against stron human shuffle chess
>players for a while in order to create an opening book.  Before that happens,
>you will see idiotic repetitions where a computer program loses the same opening
>over and over and over.
>
>Why is it (for instance) that humans study opening theory?  Because many opening
>sequences are decidedly non-obvious and have had the wrinkles ironed out by
>thousands upon thousands of attempts.  So, eventually, we discover what is
>playable and what is not playable.
>
>Here are the very humble beginnings of an opening book for Chess960:
>ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/chess-engines/new-approach/fc960.epd
>
>You will notice that it does not even have one full ply yet.  Eventually, it
>will be useful.  For now, it is just a curiosity.

Stats:
min(seconds)	max(seconds)	ave_seconds	min(ply)	max(ply)	ave_ply	min(eval)	max(eval)	ave_ce	min(nps)	max(nps)	ave_nps	min(nodes)	max(nodes)	ave_nodes
504	2313	878.86	19	23	21.36	2	43	17	411199	490393	446975	219867942	1053609055	392733936



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