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[pal larkin]

           Hi all.  I am going to try the match again using a version of Stockfish that seems to not lose on time as much as the other one.  People have said that this may not be the strongest version of Ivanhoe, but Norman Schmidt has told me that it is as good as any version out---and he should know.

               The match is between the 64 bit mp versions of Ivanhoe 999946h ("game play" version) and Stockfish 2.2.2 JA SSE42.

               Match conditions: Intel core I7 920 at 2.66GHz using 4 cores HT off; Win 7 64 Home Premium; 6G RAM; pc doing nothing but the match while a game is being played.  Each engine uses its default settings; no large pages; no end-game tablebases; 512 hash each; 4 cores each; ponder off.

               Time control is 40 in 120 min - 20 in 60 min - remainder in 30 min plus 10 seconds per move.  I am using the excellent "ChessGUI" to run the match, set to give each engine a 1/10th second "overstep" margin to help avoid any time losses.

               The openings are played using random choices from the "top200.pgn" created by Sedat Canbaz as part of his "perfect_2011" opening book; each opening is played as Black and White by each engine.

               Since each game takes about 5--6 hours, it will take some time before there are a good amount of games.  I plan to keep posting the games as they are completed (or more likely after every few games).  I hope that there will be interest in the games themselves, as well as the outcome of the match.