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Subject: Re: CSTal2.03-Nimzo98, games 8-10/10, finished

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 06:16:39 09/24/99

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On September 24, 1999 at 01:23:57, Harald Faber wrote:

>Now it is done. My small EXAMPLE tournament, especially been setup for Thorstens
>sceptical view is finished.
>
>Overall result is 7.5-2.5 in favour of Nimzo98.
>Nimzo98 ran on 166MHz MMX with 21MB hash
>CSTal 2.03 had the *50% faster* AMD-K6-200 with auto-hash-usage (out of 64MB
>RAM) and access to the large book on CD-rom.
>
>Time control was tournament, 40/120+20/60+20/60+...
>CST's opponent was a choice by chance, it could also have been another program.
>
>Very interesting was the last game, no.10, you should look at it and maybe you
>would have expected the players with opposite colors. :-)
>
>Now I am curious which excuses Thorsten can present as I used his recommended
>settings (except that I have no AMD-K6-3-500 for CST on which CST may have a
>chance against Nimzo98 on MMX166 :-)).
>
>CSTal palys interesting games, no doubt, but the sacs and the play is not as
>sound as the King's, WChess and others.
>
>So goodbye Tal from my harddisk...
>For interest, some time ago I posted 4 games of CST, 2 against Hiarcs7.32 where
>one of the games was not finished. It still is not but the eval has become clear
>now. Although Thiorsten found the posted position promising for Tal, now the
>position is lost. It is no surprise that Tal loses equal or even better
>endgames. You find the game at the end of this post.

Hello Harald,
Before you delete CSTal-2 from your HD tell me which "Chess.sty" file were you
using?  I played two games last night using the original Chess.sty file and they
were two interesting draws vs Hiarcs 7.32.  The first 6 games I played using the
file at the web site (Thorsten's I think).  It's too early to be sure but it
looks a little more solid in these two games.  So now I will play a few more
just to see if it really is better.
Jim Walker


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