Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:10:12 02/06/06
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On February 06, 2006 at 18:07:28, Heinz van Kempen wrote: >On February 06, 2006 at 15:40:22, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote: > >>This sounds great. With this kind of time, the engines will be able to uncover >>the correct long range plans. The games will certainly be informative. >> >>The next thing i say is pure fantasy (what i would like), but there is no need >>to take it too seriously >> >> >>..Instead of picking a random opening from the harry schnap suite, it would be >>great to have thematic rounds, based on the openings people are most interested >>in. I don't know how you would determine what people are most interested in >>(thus the practical problem) and you probably don't want to do this.... >> >> >>Imagine, though, having this many games on the same opening. You could learn >>alot about the opening, the engine, the variety of middle game plans that do and >>don't work. >> >>Also, you could use the tournment as an evaluation tool, to see if a mariginal >>opening is really viable. Is the sicilian kan refuted? to what extent is the >>scandanavian ok for black (at the super gm level, where it is rarely seen). Is >>the kings gambit really not too good at the top level? >> >> >>Just some thoughts >> >>best >>Joseph >> >> >> >> >> >>On February 06, 2006 at 08:44:21, Heinz van Kempen wrote: >> >>>Hi all , >>> >>>the 1st CEGT Championship with tournament time control 40/120 repeated will >>>start on Wednesday. This will be on two dual core machines giving 512 MB hash to >>>all engines, with 5men EGTB and Harry Schnapp 7 moves suite. >>> >>>This event will be regularly held with the top ten engines from our rating list >>>in order to receive games on very high level. For all engines SMPnd 64-bit >>>versions will be used if available. >>> >>>Games will be given regularly (probably all two days) for download and replay in >>>our new replay zone. People wanting to comment (annotate) some of the games are >>>welcome. >>> >>>Participants: >>> >>> >>>1. Rybka 64-bit version >>>2. Deep Shredder 64-bit >>>3. Fruit >>>4. Fritz >>>5. Hiarcs Hypermodern >>>6. Deep Junior >>>7. Spike >>>8. Smar Think >>>9. Ktulu >>>10. CM setting (proposed by Wilhelm Hudetz after the new rating list) >>> >>>This new rating list again shows another big improvement for the latest Rybka >>>1.0.1 beta 13b after more than 500 games each with the 32 and 64-bit versions. >>>Other engines like Naum 1.91 are having a very promising start. More later or >>>tomorrow. >>> >>>Best Regards >>>Heinz >>> >>>http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/ > >Hi Joseph, > >this is an interesting proposal. Would be no problem for me to create little >test suites with certain openings people would like to see. With ChessBase this >is very easy. > >Anyway I am big fan of Harry Schnapp´s work. So maybe with Harry´s help we could >pick some of the best lines from his suite and run a theme tournament or people >just tell here what they are interested in and I write to Harry for proposals >regarding lines. > >My own favourites by the way would be the Sicilian Dragon and some King´s Indian >lines. Proposals are welcome, but I would prefer not to pregive more than 12 >moves, hating really those almost analyzed to death by chess theory. So >something still being unclear or en vogue currently. I would like to see a thematic 1. b4 tournament, but I guess I am strongly in the minority there.
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