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Subject: Re: RK 2005 (90m+30s) After cycle 18 / 504 games

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 22:08:07 05/07/05

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On May 08, 2005 at 00:46:02, Heinz van Kempen wrote:

>On May 07, 2005 at 13:39:52, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>After the end of cycle 18, round 127 and 504 games, it is
>>still Shredder9 to have the lead. Ruffian 2.1.0 remained
>>at the bottom of the table and the winners of this serie
>>are Hiarcs 9 and Junior 9 with 5.0/7
>>
>>RK 2005 Tournament (90m+30s)
>>8 engines, 210 rounds, 840 games, Athlon 1.3/64 MB hash
>>All games played under ChessBase Fritz8-GUI
>>Time control: 90m+30s, ponder=off, 3-/4-men EGTB
>>Books: own tournament books, optimize, no book learning
>>Chess Tiger 15 CB (tiger15.ctg) by Christoph Theron
>>Fritz 8.0.0.26  (fritz8.ctg) by Frans Morsch
>>Hiarcs 9  (hiarcs9.ctg) by Mark Uniacke
>>Gandalf 6.0 (dbchs.dat) by Steen Surballe
>>Junior 9.0.0.3  (junior9.ctg) by Amir Ban
>>Ruffian 2.1.0 UCI  (book 3) by Perola Valfridsson
>>Shredder 9 CB  (shredder9.ctg) by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
>>The King 3.33 (Yoda 2.5 with cm.book) by Johan de Koning
>>Tester: Kurt Utzinger / Rolf Bühler, Switzerland
>>
>>Details / Ranking list / Games download
>>http://www.utzingerk.com/rk_2005.htm
>>
>>
>>
>>    Program                            Score     %    Av.Op.  Elo    +   -
>>
>>  1 Shredder 9                     :  78.5/126  62.3   2489   2576   52  54
>>  2 Junior 9                       :  68.5/126  54.4   2496   2526   59  48
>>  3 Fritz 8                        :  64.5/126  51.2   2499   2507   62  38
>>  4 Chess Tiger 15.0               :  62.0/126  49.2   2501   2495   44  62
>>  5 Hiarcs 9                       :  61.5/126  48.8   2501   2493   44  62
>>  6 Gandalf 6.0                    :  59.5/126  47.2   2502   2483   43  60
>>  7 The King 3.33                  :  58.0/126  46.0   2503   2476   43  59
>>  8 Ruffian 2.1.0                  :  51.5/126  40.9   2508   2444   48  54
>
>Hi Kurt,
>
>comparing different ELO lists available I observed the following, when I compare
>Fritz and Junior and this seems to be valid for different Fritz versions:
>
>Blitz: Fritz mostly ahead of Junior
>Active (Rapid) Chess: more or less at the same level
>Tournament time control: Junior mainly better than Fritz (hard to find a lot of
>tournaments here, so I refer to SSDF and your tournaments especially)
>
>So my conclusion would be that Junior gains strength above average the more time
>is given to the engine and engines like for example Fritz do not.

      Hello Heinz
      Interesting observations in so far as you say things
      I have thought about myself and after some more
      reflection I would agree with this statement though
      things might have changed to the same level when
      using Fritz 8 Bilbao instead of our test program v8.0.0.26
      Kurt

Hiarcs for
>example also is a very good blitz engine, but seems to have worse results
>(disproportionate) with more time (SSDF).
>
>Hard to say what could be the reasons for this phenomenon.

      Hello Heinz
      Fully agreed and in accordance with my experience when
      using Hiarcs 9 for analysing purposes: from some depth
      search on it takes a very very long time till Hiarcs 9
      changes its mind for better moves.
      Kurt

>Opposite to you I am interested in all time controls, thinking on the other hand
>that tournament chess is the "king´s category".
>
>So let us hope that there will always be tournaments with long time control, no
>matter how fast computers will be in the future.
>
>Best Regards
>Heinz



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