Author: Harald Faber
Date: 02:39:01 09/25/99
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On September 24, 1999 at 09:16:39, James T. Walker 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? As Thorsten recommended, I used the opriginal style. >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 Just take a look at the 10th=last game of this match where Tal unnecessarily loses a draw endgame. Astonishing but you can count on Tal if it comes to the endgame. Tal patzers in endgames are normal.
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