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Subject: Re: WCCC Round 4 tables and 5 games

Author: Matthew Hull

Date: 18:51:28 08/15/05

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On August 15, 2005 at 21:21:46, Mark Young wrote:

>On August 15, 2005 at 20:54:51, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On August 15, 2005 at 19:35:25, Mark Young wrote:
>>
>>>On August 15, 2005 at 16:55:58, Thomas Mayer wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 15, 2005 at 16:41:40, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On August 15, 2005 at 16:21:31, Theo van der Storm wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>C:\DOSEXE\PGN.EXE -d -x wccc13.pgn
>>>>>>  # Name                   1    2    3    4   P    BU   SB     G
>>>>>>  1 Crafty                3b=  4b1 10w1  9b1  3.5   8.0  6.50  4
>>>>>>  2 Zappa                 9w1  6b1  5w1 11b=  3.5   6.0  5.75  4
>>>>>>  3 Shredder              1w= 10b1  9w1  6b=  3.0   7.5  4.75  4
>>>>>>  4 Deep Junior          11b1  1w0  7b1 10w1  3.0   7.0  3.50  4
>>>>>>  5 Fruit                 7b1  8w1  2b0 12w=  2.5   7.5  3.75  4
>>>>>>  6 Deep Sjeng            8b=  2w0 12b1  3w=  2.0   8.5  2.75  4
>>>>>>  7 Jonny                 5w0 11b1  4w0  8w1  2.0   7.5  2.00  4
>>>>>>  8 The Baron             6w=  5b0 11w1  7b0  1.5   7.0  1.50  4
>>>>>>  9 The Crazy Bishop      2b0 12w1  3b0  1w0  1.0  10.5  0.50  4
>>>>>> 10 Diep                 12b1  3w0  1b0  4b0  1.0  10.0  0.50  4
>>>>>> 11 Fute_MT               4w0  7w0  8b0  2w=  0.5  10.0  1.75  4
>>>>>> 12 IsiChess MMX         10w0  9b0  6w0  5b=  0.5   6.5  1.25  4
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  # Name                 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12    P    BU   SB
>>>>>>  1 Crafty               X  .  ½  1  .  .  .  .  1  1  .  .   3.5   8.0  6.50
>>>>>>  2 Zappa                .  X  .  .  1  1  .  .  1  .  ½  .   3.5   6.0  5.75
>>>>>>  3 Shredder             ½  .  X  .  .  ½  .  .  1  1  .  .   3.0   7.5  4.75
>>>>>>  4 Deep Junior          0  .  .  X  .  .  1  .  .  1  1  .   3.0   7.0  3.50
>>>>>>  5 Fruit                .  0  .  .  X  .  1  1  .  .  .  ½   2.5   7.5  3.75
>>>>>>  6 Deep Sjeng           .  0  ½  .  .  X  .  ½  .  .  .  1   2.0   8.5  2.75
>>>>>>  7 Jonny                .  .  .  0  0  .  X  1  .  .  1  .   2.0   7.5  2.00
>>>>>>  8 The Baron            .  .  .  .  0  ½  0  X  .  .  1  .   1.5   7.0  1.50
>>>>>>  9 The Crazy Bishop     0  0  0  .  .  .  .  .  X  .  .  1   1.0  10.5  0.50
>>>>>> 10 Diep                 0  .  0  0  .  .  .  .  .  X  .  1   1.0  10.0  0.50
>>>>>> 11 Fute_MT              .  ½  .  0  .  .  0  0  .  .  X  .   0.5  10.0  1.75
>>>>>> 12 IsiChess MMX         .  .  .  .  ½  0  .  .  0  0  .  X   0.5   6.5  1.25
>>>>>
>>>>>Is there a hardware listing somewhere yet?
>>>>>
>>>>>I am guessing that Fruit is the only one in the top six that is running on a
>>>>>single CPU.
>>>>>
>>>>>Against Crafty (for instance) there is about 6-7x speed difference (as a rough
>>>>>estimate).  I am curious about the other hardware.
>>>>
>>>>Hi Dann,
>>>>
>>>>all I know currently is, that Diep & Crafty play on 8-way boxes, Shredder,
>>>>Junior & Zappa on 4-way, Deep Sjeng on Dual an the rest on single... For Jonny
>>>>it should be Athlon 64 with 2.6 GHz internally, Fruit is 2.4 GHz...
>>>>I think Gerd has his own Athlon 64 with him which is afaik 2.2 GHz -> The rest
>>>>is probably P4 3.0 GHz
>>>>
>>>>Greets, Thomas
>>>
>>>Crafty has really shown me some very good chess in this tournament. Crafty has
>>>shown some holes in its play before. I don't see them so far in this tournament.
>>>This has to be more then just 8 cpu's and 16 million nodes a sec helping
>>>Crafty's play. For this to happen Crafty must has also stepped up a notch on the
>>>programming side. Speed is great, but speed can't always fix holes in a programs
>>>play. As shown by Diep for example who also plays on a 8 way. Bob looks like a
>>>big threat for any program in this touranment, and it is no fluke that Crafty is
>>>in first place. Bob has to be considered a favorite to win this tournament. I
>>>would not have said that 2 days ago.
>>
>>
>>I still wouldn't say it myself.  :)
>
>You may not want to say it, but you see what I see...I bet. :) It is not easy to
>bring everything together when playing in WCCC. You may have done it this year.
>All the best Bob. Good Luck.


I think enormous credit should go to Peter Berger, skipper of the starship
Crafty (Bob is chief engineer/designer).

Crafty is a well rounded player already, but getting "out of the blocks" cleanly
is simply fundamental to victory in a strong field like this.



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