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Subject: Re: Place your predictions -- CCT05 Blitz

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:22:09 10/21/05

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On October 21, 2005 at 17:19:44, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>On October 21, 2005 at 17:04:57, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On October 21, 2005 at 13:43:40, Charles Roberson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>   Make your predictions on placement for all programs.
>>>
>>>   Also, make your prediction for biggest upset.
>>>       There's always an upset; which will it be this time?
>>
>>1. Fruit
>
>The favorite yeah, but a bit handicapped by not supporting multiple CPU's...

None of the programs are using multiple CPUs except Crafty which is a Dual Xeon
(not more powerful than the Fruit machine at all).  Junior's hardware is not
listed.

>>2. Spike (Biggest Upset)
>
>The upcoming commercial? It's incease of strength lately is noticeable!
>
>>3. Hiarcs X
>
>Let's see what the new version of this super strong engine has to say.....
>
>>4. Junior
>
> You heavily underestimate Junior......! I'm sure Amir will give his
>message....:-) I as a Junior's fun (mainly due to its playing style), hope that
>it will dominate in style......

I consider the top 4 equal in strength.  This is the data I used to make my
guess (the rank field is my guess):

prog_name	prog_author	operator	hardware	handle	country	book_author	EloSSDFest	EloCEGTest	EloWBECest	EloLabansEst	EloGLyapkoEst	rank
Fruit	Fabien Letouzey	Joachim Rang	Athlon64 2.4GHz (1 CPU)	Fruit	France	Marc
Lacrosse		2775	2631		2540	1
Spike	Volker Böhm & Ralf Schäfer	Ralf Schäfer	Pentium M
2.0	SpikeX	Germany			2661	2632	2668	2576	2
Hiarcs X	Mark Uniacke	Enrico Carrisco	Athlon 64 2.85GHz	Hiarcs8x	United
Kingdom		2736	2669				2
Junior	Amir Ban & Shay Bushinsky	Amir Ban (most
probably)		ban	Israel		2789	2685				2
Pocket PC Thinker	Lance Perkins	Lance Perkins	HP iPAQ hx2755
PDA	ChessThinkerX	Canada			2560	2590	2586	2408	3
Crafty	Robert Hyatt	Robert Hyatt	Dual Xeon
2.8ghz	Crafty	USA			2522	2572	2607	2477	3
WildCat	Igor Korshunov	Igor Korshunov	AMD Athlon XP
2200+	WildCatXX	Belarus				2505	2524	2403	4
Amyan	Antonio Diéguez	Antonio Diéguez	Intel Celeron 2.0 Ghz	probably
Amyan	Chile			2505	2516	2530	2337	4
Quark	Thomas Mayer	Thomas Mayer	Athlon 64 2.4
GHz	QuarkX	Germany				2480	2503	2326	4
Amateur	Will Singleton	Will Singleton	AMD FX-55 2.6
ghz	Amateur	USA				2386	2228	2360	5
PostModernist	Andrew Williams	Andrew Williams	AMD 64
3200+	postmodernist	UK				2399		2371	5
Arasan	Jon Dart	Jon Dart	P4 3GHz	Arasanx	USA				2388	2415	2295	5
Tinker	Brian Richardson	Brian Richardson	Opteron 246 (2GHz,
1CPU)	Tinker	USA				2027			6
GNU Chess 5.07	Stuart Cracraft	Matthew Hull	Pentium M
1.4GHz	notalent	USA				2147		2161	7
Telepath	Charles Roberson	Charles Roberson	AMD 2000+	Telepath	USA							8
Tohno	Per Steneskog	Per Steneskog	AMD Athlon-64 3200+	Tohno	Sweden							8

>>5. Pocket PC Thinker
>>6. Crafty
>>7. WildCat
>>8. Amyan
>>9. Quark
>>10.Amateur
>>11.PostModernist
>>12.Arasan
>>13.Tinker
>>14.GNU Chess 5.07
>>15.Telepath
>>16.Tohno



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