Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 09:54:48 07/09/05
After many a lost match against Gandalf in Noomen 06 ECO-B47 and Noomen 07
ECO-B22, the Pro Deo 1.1 Vulcans finally had a little more success last night.
Wins were few and far between against a superior Gandalf 6.01 in the Noomen
matches, Gandalf is leading about 14-2 or something like that, but the first
game from Pro Deo 1.1 vulcan {9k9i} I think was presentable!
Timecontrol was 40 moves in 1 hour 30 minutes, repeated for next 40 moves, on
one Athlon 3200+, no pondering, 200 Mb HT for each engine. Gandalf 6.01 had
access to 5-piece endgame tablebases and 16 Mb cache.
I'm taking some chances here and hesitatingly post my Pro Deo 1.1 Vulcan {9k9i}
settings in the Lokasoft contribution area already:
http://www.lokasoft.nl/usercontributions.htm
I hope the jpg of subcommander T'Pol(Jolene Blalock) is visible to you guys?
Changes to the last Vulcan-version were mainly in lowered Passed Pawn, Double
Pawn, Pawn Formation and Weak Pawns-settings, and Right to Move value.
I still am not at all happy with [Selective Search = 100] PVs so
[Adjusted Selectivity MIDG = 6] * Maximum selective depth (midgame)
[Adjusted Selectivity END0 = 4] * Maximum selective depth (early endgame)
[Adjusted Selectivity END1 = 4] * Maximum selective depth (endgame)
[Adjusted Selectivity END2 = 4] * Maximum selective depth (simple endgame)
are back in again. 6 is a high number and very much untested, 4 for simple
endgame also untested
Now we'll just have to see if Gandalf wins its next 198 games :)
Dom Leste wrote that he also has some ideas for the endgame settings of Pro Deo
which need improving so I hope that a combination of settings in a Master.eng
can be succesful!
[Event "Tournament test Vulcan {9k9i}"]
[Site "Groningen"]
[Date "2005.07.09"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Gandalf 6.01"]
[Black "Pro Deo 1.1 - Vulcan {9k9i}"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B47"]
[TimeControl "40/5400:40/5400"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2
Qc7 7. f4 b5 8. Nxc6 dxc6 9. Be3 Bb7 10. O-O Rd8 11. Qe1 c5
12. a3 b4 13. Na4 bxa3 14. Rxa3 Nf6 15. e5 Nd5 16. Qg3 c4
17. Bd4 Bxa3 18. Qxg7 Ke7 19. Bh5 Rdf8 20. Qh6 Rhg8 21. g3
Bc6 22. Nc5 Bxb2 23. Bxb2 Qa5 24. Bd4 Qd2 25. Bf2 Nxf4
26. Qf6+ Ke8 27. Rd1 Nh3+ 28. Kf1 Qxf2+ 29. Qxf2 Nxf2
30. Rd6 Rg5 31. Rxe6+ Kd8 32. Rd6+ Kc7 33. Nxa6+ Kb6
34. Bf3 Rg6 35. Bxc6 Ng4 36. Be4+ Rxd6 37. exd6 Kxa6
38. Bxh7 Nxh2+ 39. Kg2 Ng4 40. Kf3 Nf6 41. Bf5 Kb5 42. Kf4
Kc5 43. Ke5 Nd5 44. d7 Ne3 45. Bh7 Rd8 46. Kf4 Nd5+ 47. Kf3
Rxd7 48. Bf5 Re7 49. Kf2 Re5 0-1 {A win against Gandalf with Black!}
[D]8/5p2/8/2knrB2/2p5/6P1/2P2K2/8 w - -
[Event "Tournament test Vulcan {9k9i}"]
[Site "Groningen"]
[Date "2005.07.09"]
[Round "1.2"]
[White "Pro Deo 1.1 - Vulcan {9k9i}"]
[Black "Gandalf 6.01"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B47"]
[TimeControl "40/5400:40/5400"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2
Qc7 7. Be3 Nf6 8. O-O Bb4 9. Nxc6 bxc6 10. Na4 Rb8 11. e5
Nd5 12. Qd4 Nxe3 13. Qxe3 O-O 14. Bd3 d5 15. a3 Be7 16. b4
f6 17. f4 a5 18. c3 g6 19. Kh1 Bd7 20. Rfe1 fxe5 21. fxe5
c5 22. Nxc5 Bxc5 23. bxc5 Bb5 24. c4 Bxc4 25. Bxc4 dxc4
26. Qd4 Qc6 27. Rad1 Rb5 28. Rf1 Qxc5 29. Qd7 Rb6 30. h3
Qxa3 31. Rf6 c3 32. Rdf1 Rbb8 33. Rf7 Rxf7 34. Qxf7+ Kh8
35. Kh2 Qb3 36. Qe7 Qb4 37. Qf6+ Kg8 38. Qxe6+ Kg7 39. Qf6+
Kg8 40. Qf7+ Kh8 41. e6 Qd6+ 42. Kh1 Qd3 43. e7 Qxf1+
44. Qxf1 Kg7 45. Qc4 Re8 46. Qxc3+ Kf7 47. g4 Rxe7 48. g5
a4 49. Qf6+ Ke8 50. Qh8+ Kd7 51. Qd4+ Ke8 52. Qxa4+ Kf7
53. h4 Kg7 54. Qd4+ Kg8 55. Qd8+ Kf7 56. Qd6 Re1+ 57. Kg2
Re2+ 58. Kf3 Re6 59. Qf4+ Ke8 60. Qb8+ Kd7 61. Qa7+ Kc6
62. Qxh7 Rd6 1-0 {A win against Gandalf with White!}
[D]8/7Q/2kr2p1/6P1/7P/5K2/8/8 w - -
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