Author: Chuck
Date: 02:14:22 01/25/06
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On January 25, 2006 at 04:45:43, Clive Munro wrote: > > >>As for the Emerald, it has been close on some games and still may end with a >>respectable score. I think it plays similar to the Sapphire though it is >>definitely cramped by a small book. Probably from now on I'll substitute the >>Obsidian for the Emerald. Thanks for the comments, Clive. >> >>Cheers, >> >>Chuck > >Do you think the Obsidian is any stronger then the Emerald CP? > >Curious regards > >Clive According to this thread on the Schachcomputer portal, http://www.schachcomputer.info/forum/showthread.php?t=747, the Emerald and the Turquoise are identical, with the Obsidian being maybe 20% faster. This might make it about 15 points stronger, but right where you need it in blitz, at tactics. It should at least be a little tougher to beat if nothing else. It did score 1930 on the BT2450 test but I don't know what the Emerald might score - should be a little less. Anyway, it's the latest from Novag so I would've liked to use it here but I didn't want to have 2 out of the 8 players without ratings (the Obsidian and the Lyon 68000 do not appear on the Schachcomputer active rating list and one of the purposes of this tournament was to contribute to that list). The idea did occur to me [after starting] to relay the games on ICC like some real tournaments. This would allow for tracking the time each comp took to move which is a piece of info I've not been able to record. But one thing I've been doing is using ChessBase 8 to verify the game is not a duplicate of a game that's already been played (I check MegaBase and online after about 10 or 15 moves). So that saves some time for me by not playing a dupe game, which would be pointless for rating. Either way, the tournament has been a lot of fun - I get to watch the computers play far from perfect chess, just like me. :) Cheers, Chuck
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