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Subject: Re: Your opinion regarding the design of a new large tournament ?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 02:51:05 06/17/05

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On June 17, 2005 at 05:19:33, Robert Hollay wrote:

>On June 16, 2005 at 17:36:27, Marc Lacrosse wrote:
>
>>Hello all
>>
>>I would like to get help and opinions regarding the design of a large
>>all-play-all tournament that I intend to launch.
>>
>>At first sight, I intend to invite the following free engines :
>>- Fruit Massy 2005
>>- Fruit 2.0
>>- TogaII 0.93
>>- ProDeo 1.1
>>- Spike 0.9a
>>- SlowChess WV blitz
>>- Zappa 1.0
>>- Aristarch 4.5
>>- Anmon Massy 5.5.3
>>- List 512 UCI
>>- Pharaon 3.2
>>- SOS 5.1
>>- Ruffian 1.05
>>
>>First question : Did I miss some strong free engine ?
>>
>
>Yes, you _did_ miss quite a few strong free engines. By the way, AnMon 5.5.3
>Massy does not seem as strong as big was the dust it raised.
>Maybe at longer time controls ...
>This morning has finished my AnMon Massy 5.3.3 Gauntlet tournament
>(30m+15s blitz, 1.8GHz Athlon, 64MB hash, own books - except Toga 2).
>
>Of course, 30 games are not enough to draw a conclusion, still only 33% ...
>The results:
>
>   Engine            Score   AnMon
>1: AnMon 553 Massy   10.0/30 ······
>2: Crafty 18.15      5.5/6   =11111   !!!
>3: SlowChessBlitz WV 4.5/6   11=110
>4: Toga-Fruit 2      4.0/6   1101==
>5: ProDeo 1.1 Silver 3.5/6   11001=
>6: Gothmog 1.0 b10   2.5/6   1=1000
>
>Robert

Maybe you need shorter time control.
The tournament that Anmon won was blitz 10+3

There is no reason to believe that Anmon is better at longer time control.

Uri



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