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

Author: Robert Hollay

Date: 03:54:12 06/17/05

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On June 17, 2005 at 05:51:05, Uri Blass wrote:

>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


True, but who knows ...
And Marc intends to launch a tournament at longer time control.

Marc wrote:
>So I thought I could
>use a 10/20 rate with each match being made of ten such games (a 60 moves game
>at 10/20 has a 60 minutes maximal duration).

Anyway, my results are closer to what he can expect in his tournament, than
Massy.
It's very interesting for me how Crafty thrashed AnMon!

Robert




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