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Subject: Re: ACM1994

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 11:38:27 09/18/05

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On September 18, 2005 at 13:59:18, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 18, 2005 at 12:00:09, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On September 18, 2005 at 10:45:19, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>># Name 1 2 3 4 5 P BU SB G
>>1 Deep Thought II 2w1  5b0  7w1  3b1  5b1  4  13½ 11  5
>>2 Zarkov          1b0  6b1  4w1  5b=  3w1  3½ 15  9¾ 5
>>3 Star Socrates   10w1 7b1  5w1  1w0  2b0  3  12½ 5  5
>>4 Now             6w=  10b= 2b0  8w1  9b1  3  10½ 5½ 5
>>5 Mchess Pro      8b1  1w1  3b0  2w=  1w0  2½ 16½ 7¾ 5
>>6 Cray Blitz      4b=  2w0  9w1  7b0  10w1 2½ 11  4  5
>>7 Wchess 9w1      3w0  1b0  6w1  8b0       2  13½ 4½ 5
>>8 Evaluator       5w0  9b0  10w1 4b0  7w1  2  10  2½ 5
>>9 Innovation II   7b0  8w1  6b0  10b1 4w0  2  10  2½ 5
>>10 Spector        3b0  4w=  8b0  9w0  6b0  ½ 12½ 1½ 5
>>
>>Zarkov from those days had no problems beating your 3 million nps Cray Blitz.
>>Nor had Wchess problems beating your 3 million nps Cray Blitz.
>>
>
>Ask John about the game.  First, this was a 500K program for rounds 2-4.  And
>when you ask him, he'll tell you about our rather severe crash problem due to a
>missing test to limit ply to 64 or less.  And in a couple of cute places, we
>went beyond that limit, crashed, and burned.  We fixed it for the last round,
>but it really didn't matter to the final results.
>
>But notice the issue was about deep thought, _not_ about Cray Blitz.  Did you
>see any of the micros coming close?  (hint:  round 2 was a forfeit which is why
>they were paired a second time, round 2 never got started for the DT MCP game).

Deep Thought was significantly better than the micro of 1995

Uri




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