Author: Peter McKenzie
Date: 17:03:32 01/23/00
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On January 23, 2000 at 14:41:21, Steve McRiley wrote: >Unfortunatly ZarkovX had to withdraw from the tournament. This is sad by itself >but also made it an odd number of programs. Yes, very sad - I was looking forward to seeing Zarkov play. Maybe someone else will enter? I get the feeling some people don't want their programs to play because they won't do to well - I hope this isn't the case. If a program gets last, it just means the author has been sensible and not wasted too much time on it :-) I think most chess programmers have alot of respect for anyone who manages to get a program playing legal chess! An idea: if there is an odd number then get TSCP playing! > >Here is also an updated list of programs/CPU and a new seeding based on the >feedback I got. > >I will make and post the pairings for the first round tomorrow (monday). >If another program withdraws from the tournament I will make a new pairing based >on the programs left. > >If the tournament will run with an odd number, the program that does get bye in >the round will get .5 points. > >I will also fix a channel on ICC for this tournament where discussions can take >place during this event. > >The matches on ICC will be played by standard with unrated games but if both >operators want they can ofcourse chose to play an ICC rated game instead. > >+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ >|Program Main Author ICC Handle CPU | >+--------------+------------------+--------------+----------------+ >|Amateur Will Singleton Amateur G3/500 | >| | >|Averno José C M Galán LoadedGun P2/350 | >| | >|Bringer Gerrit Reubold Bringer P3/500 | >| | >|Crafty Robert Hyatt Crafty Xeon/400 x4 | >| | >|Diep Vincent Diepeveen DiepX P/200 x4 | >| | >|EXchess Dan Homan EXchess P3/500 | >| | >|Ferret Bruce Moreland Ferret Xeon/450 x4 | >| | >|Galahad James Swafford GalahadX K6-2/400 | >| | >|GnuChess Stuart Cracraft GnuChess P3/500 | >| | >|Grok Peter Kappler Grok Athlon/650 | >| | >|Hossa Steffen A. Jakob Hossa P3/500 | >| | >|Insomniac James Robertson RDavis101 P3/500 | >| | >|LambChop Peter McKenzie LambChop Kryotech/1GHz | >| | >|Little Goliath Michael Borgstaedt | >| | >|Nimzo Chrilly Donninger Varguz Xeon 550 @616 | >| | >|PostModernist Andrew Williams PostModernist P3/450 | >| | >|Shrike Dan Newman SkyBlue P3/500 | >| | >|Shredder(3) Stefan Meyer-Kahlen Netsurfer Athlon 700mhz | >| | >|Tinker Brian Richardson Tinker P3/600 | >+------------------------------------------------+----------------+ > >1. Nimzo >2. Ferret I understand you may have had alot of feedback, but I don't think the seeding should be done by a voting process. It should be done using some sort of logic. The only logic that I can think of that would place Nimzo above Ferret is that Nimzo is a commercial program. Maybe alot of people bought it and think its strong, maybe people are impressed by SSDF? Of course Ferret isn't on the SSDF, and in any case SSDF use equal hardware. Ferret will use a machine that is effectively TWICE as fast as Nimzo's machine. If you use the results of previous computer tournaments as a guide, then it seems clear Ferret should be in front. Just look at the following results I picked up from the ICCA page: World Computer Champ's 1999: Ferret 2nd (5.5/7), Nimzo 8th (4.5/7) World Micro Computer Champ's 1997: Ferret 5th, Nimzo didn't play World Micro Computer Champ's 1996: Ferret 2nd (8.5/9), Nimzo 3rd (7.5/9) World Micro Computer Champ's 1995: both programs tied, playoff awarded to Ferret by default. >3. Shredder >4. Crafty >5. Diep >6. LambChop >7. Insomniac >8. Little Goliath >9. PostModernist >10. Amateur >11. Hossa >12. EXchess >13. Grok >14. GnuChess >15. Bringer >16. Galahad >17. Tinker >18. Averno >19. Shrike > >/McRiley
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