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Subject: Re: 1st CEGT Championship with 40/120 repeated

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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