Author: James T. Walker
Date: 12:22:50 08/17/99
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On August 17, 1999 at 03:19:47, Didzis Cirulis wrote: >On August 16, 1999 at 16:21:48, James T. Walker wrote: > >>Hello Didzis, >>I want to know what you are using for the Chess style for CSTal-2. I have only >>played 21 games With CSTal-2 vs other computers at long time controls. The >>results have been very disappointing. For instance, vs Junior 5.0 at 40moves in >>60 minutes Junior 5.0 scored +10 -1 =5. Nimzo 99a scored +2 -1 =0 at the same >>time control. In two games vs Fritz 5.32 Fritz won 2-0. So I have 21 games >>with CSTal-2 losing 14 winning 2 and drawing 5. >>I am very much interested in finding a "Magic" Chess style file which will make >>CSTal-2 play better vs computers. It seems to do better vs humans but that's a >>subjective viewpoint. >>Jim Walker > >Hi James, > >If you visit my page, there is all information you need. :-) > >Currently I am using version 2.03 with style provided by Thorsten soon after >those three tal-hiarcs games he posted here. Maybe this is a real Hiarcs-killer, >but I have not enough data to be sure about that. > >And you must remember that all my games (even if played at as fair conditions as >possible) are still the games on one PC and with PB off. But I still consider my >results informative as all my tournaments are played the same way. I can >compare. > >Didzis > >Didzis Hello Didzis, I decided to run a couple of games CST-2 vs Hiarcs at 40/2 last nite because of your original post. Here is what happened. Hiarcs won the first game as white. In the second game at move 78 CST-2 had a KQP vs KR. Easy win (I don't have the tablebase for that ending or it would have been). Hiarcs had 43 seconds to make the time control (2 more moves) and CST-2 had more than 5 minutes(Forget exactly). Anyway, with only one move to go and CST-2 has 4:13 to make one move it runs out of time!? So it should have been 1-1 but ended up 2-0 for Hiarcs. I hate this problem of CST-2 more than any other problem it has. By the way, Hiarcs was running on a PII-333 and CST-2 was running on a K6-3-450. It was interesting enough that I will try again (Maybe I'll get some more tablebases first). Jim Walker
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