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

Author: blass uri

Date: 04:10:15 09/25/99

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On September 25, 1999 at 05:39:01, Harald Faber wrote:

>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.

Tal won 2 games in the endgame against Junior(total result 2:2) and won one game
in ICC in the endgame against Hiarcs(120/40 when tal had a slight hardware
adavantage pIII550 vs PIII500).
These games were not by thorsten so maybe Tal is sometimes not so bad in the
endgame with good hardware.

Uri



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