Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:03:27 08/15/05
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On August 15, 2005 at 21:51:28, Matthew Hull wrote: >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. The art of making an opening book is much less about finding lines that crush your opponent, and everything about finding lines that give your program a chance. Peter's done well from that perspective, and that is all that can be hoped for with the book stuff. It is easy to play a book line that leaves you dead lost before the first big search. Avoiding that is difficult at best...
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