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Subject: Blitz 4: Final Standings. Brilliant Win For Crafty!

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 09:48:29 01/17/00

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This is a superb win for Crafty, which augurs well for the World Championship in
London.

Having said that, Crafty is probably optimised for Blitz, given the way Bob
tells us he uses it on ICC!

If these results are roughly representative of the relative strength of these
programs, then there are an awful lot of very strong programs out there! I
wonder how they compare with the commercials? Probably not far behind (but not
so fully featured, and not so well dubugged).

I have downloaded Bringer, because it is quick and easy to download and run
under NT. I started with V 1.5, then upgraded to 1.6 (which is a "beta" version)
because 1.5 didn't recognise draw by repetition. I have to say that, while it
might just be an impression, V 1.5 seemed to be stronger to me - at 10s per
move, it wrestled down the other programs I played it against far more
convincingly than V 1.6. This could be coincidence that it obtained positions
that it liked in V 1.5, it could be that the new version is more tuned to
tournament time settings, or it could be that it really has worsened a little.

But it's still very strong, uses very little disc space, is easy to set up, and
is more than strong enough for me!

-g

On January 17, 2000 at 08:46:16, Sergio Martinez wrote:

>The blitz 4 tourney has ended and the winner is Crafty. Crafty played very well,
>was the best, however Crafty had dangerous oponents like Comet, SOS or Arasan
>(surprise).
>Many surprises in this tourney, like Inmichess (won Anmon, SOS and La Petite) or
>Phalanx and Arasan, good position to both. However Anmon had a poor playing and
>ended with 3 points (3/7).
>
>Last Round:
>
>1 Crafty 17.5 	½:½ 	Arasan 5.3
>2 TCB 0045 	0:1 	SOS
>3 Phalanx 21 	1:0 	Bringer 1.6
>4 Exchess 2.51 	0:1 	Comet B11
>5 La Petite**  	0:1 	Inmichess 3.01
>6 LG 2000 2.0 	1:0 	LChop 7.10
>7 Gromit 2.20 	0:1 	Ant 4.16
>8 Anmon 5.03 	1:0 	Fortress 1.61
>9 Sjeng 	1:0 	Monik 2.0
>10 Averno 0.24 	0:1 	Snail 1.02
>
>
>** La Petite is a clone of Crafty
>
>Final Standings:
>
>1 Crafty 17.5   	16:W 4:W 10:L 13:W 6:W 2:W 3:D		5½
>2 Comet B11    		5:W 7:W 3:W 6:L 8:W 1:L 11:W		5
>3 Arasan 5.3    	13:W 11:W 2:L 9:W 15:W 8:D 1:D		5
>4 SOS    		18:W 1:L 9:L 20:W 13:W 12:W 6:W		5
>5 Phalanx 21   	 	2:L 15:L 19:W 17:W 11:W 9:W 8:W		5
>6 TCB 0045    		15:W 12:W 8:D 2:W 1:L 10:W 4:L		4½
>7 LG 2000 2.0    	19:W 2:L 11:D 12:W 10:L 15:W 13:W	4½
>8 Bringer 1.6    	20:W 9:W 6:D 10:W 2:L 3:D 5:L		4
>9 Inmichess 3.01    	14:W 8:L 4:W 3:L 16:W 5:L 10:W		4
>10 La Petite**     	12:D 19:W 1:W 8:L 7:W 6:L 9:L		3½
>11 Exchess 2.51    	17:W 3:L 7:D 16:W 5:L 14:W 2:L		3½
>12 Ant 4.16    		10:D 6:L 18:W 7:L 19:W 4:L 15:W		3½
>13 LChop 7.10    	3:L 17:W 14:W 1:L 4:L 16:W 7:L		3
>14 Anmon 5.03    	9:L 20:W 13:L 15:L 17:W 11:L 18:W	3
>15 Gromit 2.20   	6:L 5:W 16:D 14:W 3:L 7:L 12:L		2½
>16 Sjeng    		1:L 18:W 15:D 11:L 9:L 13:L 20:W	2½
>17 Snail 1.02    	11:L 13:L 20:W 5:L 14:L 18:L 19:W	2
>18 Fortress 1.61    	4:L 16:L 12:L 19:L 20:W 17:W 14:L	2
>19 Averno 0.24    	7:L 10:L 5:L 18:W 12:L 20:L 17:L	1
>20 Monik 2.0    	8:L 14:L 17:L 4:L 18:L 19:W 16:L	1
>
>** La Petite is a clone of Crafty
>
>I will upload all information (games, rounds,standindgs) to my web page the next
>week.



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