Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Results from the WT-5 tournament

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 10:56:01 08/30/99

Go up one level in this thread


On August 29, 1999 at 10:44:42, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 29, 1999 at 01:39:53, brain wrote:
>
>>So Bob,
>>Voyager and Bionic are crafties. Can I know what else for my record? Thanks.
>>

A program 'egg' and 'superchicken' are playing on the icc server...
...can't remember any of those programs being at ftp sites...
...guess why

>Those are the ones that are visible. There was yet another one, but for the
>life of me, I don't recall the name.  Vincent might remember...  it was playing
>on ICC a few months ago and claimed to be a 'new' program.  A new program that
>matched the most recent version of crafty nearly 100% when we tested some of
>his games..  :)

>>On August 28, 1999 at 16:08:33, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On August 28, 1999 at 11:21:22, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hello,
>>>>
>>>>the result from the WT-5 tournament from Kai Skibbe, Christian Koch and me !
>>>>
>>>>40 moves in 40 minutes,
>>>>AMD K6-2 333 MHz, Pentium III 504 MHz and AMD K6-3 450 MHz,
>>>>~ 32 MB for Hash-Tables,
>>>>Ponder = Off
>>>>
>>>>Crafty, Voyager, Comet, Patzer, Bringer using 4-pieces Nalimov Table-Base
>>>>Gromit and AnMon using 4-pieces Edwards Table-Bases !
>>>
>>>You do know that 'voyager' is a dead copy of crafty, right?  With just the
>>>key character constants converted to German.  This was revealed several months
>>>ago and there was _zero_ doubt as I went thru the executable carefully and
>>>posted a lot of what I found, just to make it clear...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>IMPORTANT NOTE
>>>>Zarkov, Nimzo, Voyager, LGoliath, Patzer, Francesca und LambChop
>>>>are versions of programs in development and have been offered by
>>>>authors to Kai, Chritian and Frank only for the explicit purpose
>>>>of organizing this tournament. THEY ARE NOT PUBLICLY AVAILABLE !
>>>>
>>>>01. Nimzo 2000a               102,0/144   70,83%   2572 ELO
>>>>02. Zarkov 4.5h                95,5/144   66,32%   2538 ELO
>>>>03. Crafty 16.11-16.15         92,0/144   63,89%   2521 ELO
>>>>04. Voyager 5.08-6.01          89,5/144   62,15%   2510 ELO
>>>>05. LGoliath 2000              75,5/144   52,43%   2445 ELO
>>>>06. Comet B.04-B.05            75,0/144   52,08%   2444 ELO
>>>>07. AnMon 4.26-4.27            70,0/144   48,61%   2421 ELO
>>>>08. Patzer 3.0                 64,0/144   44,44%   2394 ELO
>>>>09. Phalanx 21                 60,0/144   41,67%   2375 ELO
>>>>10. Francesca 0.68d-0.70       58,5/144   40,63%   2369 ELO
>>>>11. Gromit 2.20                58,0/144   40,28%   2367 ELO
>>>>12. LambChop 8.2               51,0/144   35,42%   2333 ELO
>>>>13. Bringer 1.4-1.5            45,0/144   31,25%   2303 ELO
>>>>
>>>>You can download the 936 games under ...
>>>>http://members.xoom.com/VolkerPi/
>>>>
>>>>Nimzo 2000a play very strong and this version is more than 100 ELO better than
>>>>Nimzo 2000 ! Voyager win the matches against Nimzo 2000a, Zarkov 4.5h and Crafty
>>>>16.15 with 6,5 : 5,5 lose against Gromit with 5,0 : 7,0 !
>>>>
>>>>LambChop 8.2 play more than 100 ELO better than LambChop 7.1, this is very
>>>>great, LambChop play an interesting chess, I like this program (and AnMon :-)
>>>>and the others)
>>>>
>>>>For the new chess program Bringer ist this result sensational ! LGoliath 2000
>>>>play ca. 75-100 ELO better than LGoliath Gold 2.05 !
>>>>
>>>>From Francesca we become in the last round an update. This new Francesca version
>>>>play stronger. OK, when we play the next tournament, but not in the next 3-4
>>>>months I think !
>>>>
>>>>The Crafty versions play an fantastic chess and I can not understand that Dr.
>>>>Robert Hyatt say that the time managment from Crafty is bad when Crafty play on
>>>>one machine. I can not see that. Crafty play under Winboard (without ponder)
>>>>matches with a good time control and blitz not the last moves before the time
>>>>control ending !!!
>>>>
>>>>In 620 games with Crafty (see the ELO-Ranglist from Kai Skibbe, Christian Koch
>>>>and me under ... http://members.xoom.com/VolkerPi/ I see (when i looked the
>>>>games, not all games) not problems with the time-managmant from Crafty on one
>>>>PC.
>>>>
>>>>In 4550 games under Winboard we have 30 games with time problems, but the most
>>>>of this 30 games are problems from the engines, not problems with time controls.
>>>>
>>>>We have all log files from Crafty (WT-5) and I looked this and see not problems
>>>>with the time control, sorry Bob (great results from Crafty) !
>>>>
>>>>OK, thanks for the programmer which give your programs for this tournament and
>>>>sorry for my bad english.
>>>>
>>>>Kind regards
>>>>Frank



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.