Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 12:19:24 02/19/00
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On February 19, 2000 at 02:54:57, Thorsten Czub wrote: >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. I agree about the other reasons to invalidate game for playing strength except the bugs. IMHO, bugs are integral part of a program strength (or weakness, in this case). José. >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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