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Subject: Re: RK 2005 (90m+30s) 840 games (Last tournament?)

Author: Kaj Soderberg

Date: 02:47:23 08/20/05

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On August 20, 2005 at 01:51:20, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>Our RK 2005 (90m+30s) was perhaps our last big tournament.
>Due to lack of interest of the chess computer community I do
>not think that we shall again have the spirit to ever start
>such a long lasting tourney. In almost all cases very few
>or even no comments - contrary to a lot of dumb and short
>blitz tourneys that are published every day. It's indeed
>somewhat a frustrating disappointment. We are going to
>concentrate on testing new engines. This seems to be much
>more interesting for all people.
>Regards
>Kurt
>
>Details / Final cross table / Statistics / Games download
>[http://www.utzingerk.com/rk_2005.htm]
>
>    Program                            Score     %    Av.Op.  Elo    +   -
>  1 Shredder 9                     : 130.0/210  61.9   2489   2574   40  37
>  2 Junior 9                       : 115.5/210  55.0   2496   2530   44  35
>  3 Chess Tiger 15.0               : 107.5/210  51.2   2499   2507   47  32
>  4 Fritz 8                        : 106.5/210  50.7   2499   2504   48  30
>  5 Hiarcs 9                       :  99.5/210  47.4   2502   2484   35  46
>  6 Gandalf 6.0                    :  98.5/210  46.9   2503   2481   32  46
>  7 The King 3.33                  :  97.5/210  46.4   2503   2478   32  46
>  8 Ruffian 2.1.0                  :  85.0/210  40.5   2508   2441   38  41
>************************************************************************************

Hi Kurt,

Following your valuable test work, although not actively commenting goes for mee
too. In my opinion there is no other better way to establish the relative
strength of a program than playing it against other programs for hundreds of
games at longer time controls. And so we see for instance that Chess Tiger is an
awesome beast after all, which supports my own thoughts about the engine and has
now been objectively proven.

So keep up the good work. There are many of us here excited about youre
tournaments!

Greetings,

Kaj



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