Author: Heiko Mikala
Date: 19:45:07 12/04/99
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Hi Peter! On December 04, 1999 at 20:32:17, Peter Kasinski wrote: >[...] >The tournament was a 6-cycle round-robin at 40 moves / 2 hours using two >identical P3 550MHz with 320 Mb memory each. This meant that each program >played 30 games, or five 6-game matches against every opponent. What a huge tournament! Thank you very much for posting the games! > 2. Hiarcs 7.32 15.5 / 30 > Junior 5 15.5 / 30 > Rebel 10c 15.5 / 30 > 5. Fritz 5.32 15.0 / 30 That's close! >Comments: > >1. Top programs play at the same level (the winner scored 56.7%). Yes, I can confirm that, I see the same in my own tournament (g/60 on two IBM-300 computers). It's really amazing, how close together the top programs are. I can't see a program, that's clearly dominating at the moment (haven't tested Chess Tiger yet, of course). >3. Nimzo 2000 scored 11/15 with black (!) and was the only program not to lose >a match And that's very impressive. I was thinking about including Nimzo 2000 in my tournament too, although I already have Nimzo 7.32 running. But I also saw some nice blitz-games played by the 2000B Winboard engine here at home. The only thing I'm not sure about is, wether I should use the Nimzo 2000 full version, or the WB-Nimzo 2000B Winboard engine. >4. Shredder was the only program often out of the book by move 7-8. Sometimes it >would find its way back to the book, some other times it would not. I don't know >how much this has meant I see something similar happen with Shredder 4. It's book is clearly the shallowest of all top programs, although the resulting positions are usually ok. I am, too, not sure, what this means for it's playing strength. It doesn't seem to have any negative influence so far, though (and to be honest, I *hate* it, when two programs play 20 or more moves out of book, and the first calculated move is already an endgame move, using the endgame tablebases... That's senseless, I don't need to watch such games) >7. Shredder remains my favorite program for its user friendliness. I like the Shredder 4 interface too. >8. During these two months I had exactly one power outage interrupting a game. Funny, me too. :) Greetings, Heiko.
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