Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 23:54:57 02/18/00
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On February 18, 2000 at 23:31:54, James Robertson wrote: >I was wondering if someone could tell where to find out about the strength of >CSTal.... if it could be divorced from a discussion of its programmer, that >would be all the better. > >If anyone has run a tournament with this engine or knows of tournaments (I think >someone mentioned CSTal competed in a Paris event) could they please post their >results here? > >Thanks, >James CSTal participated at the championship in Paris. CSTal participated at the championship in Paderborn. It participates in a tournament by joern gronemann, on k6-2 hardware. It participates in my tournament, on k6-3. Before it was in another tournament of mine, on k6-200 Mhz. It also once participated in a tournament of Mr. Wiesenecker, but he used as far as i know a style that was shit. Also in one of the chlodra/thuringen/aufsess tournaments it participated, on a cyrix cpu. IMO it failed to play good at mr.wieseneckers tournament (wrong style), it did not so good in aufsess (cyrix is to slow), in paris it was ok, also in paderborn. but in paderborn and paris the playing strength was disturbed by strange bugs, e.g. lost a won game shortly before mate because it underpromoted in a knight .-) but in paderborn it beated e.g. genius, in paris it made a draw vs. dark thought (dark thought running on very fast cooled alpha machines). so it is no loser at all IMO. it all depends on the why! i guess it the same with other programs. when there is a big bug in your program, you cannot really count the games for playing strength. but uninformed people DO count those games too. or when you run the program on slow or broken hardware , you get less good chances (see when junior upgraded it's machine in paris...)...
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