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Subject: Re:Testing new engines would be great!

Author: Madhavan

Date: 04:55:38 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

Testing new engines is a very great idea,I fully agree with it.There are lots of
new engines that were released a few week ago,I agree that testing the old but
strong engines are always boring,some might turn up to respond but most just see
the test result and move on to other posts.

Kurt,What people are interested nowadays is knowing the strength of new
engines,there are many like Spike,Glaurung and some which were not or rarely
tested by your team.Spike atleast seems to be doing very well in the tests quite
recently which deserves testing.you see Kurt,that in this WCCC,there are lots of
freewares which are among the top pushing away the commercials like Deep Junior
etc.

I hope that there will be more response and more comments on your tourneys of
new engines.So when are you planning to start the new engines in the tourney?



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