The Dawn Of A New King

[Graham Banks]

Very-very disappointing performance of CM 11...

Yes - it's taking a while to wake up in this one!

[Graham Banks]

THE DAWN OF A NEW KING

Dual Athlon XP2000+
Deep Shredder 11 GUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
HS-Bigbook.bkt
40 moves in 68 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
2 cycles (30 rounds)


Standings after Round 15

11.5 - Toga II 1.3.4
11.0 - Fruit 2.1
10.5 - Glaurung 1.2.1 Crusader
9.5 - Chess Tiger 2007 Gambit
8.5 - Delfi 5.2
8.5 - Hiarcs X54 Hypermodern
7.0 - Pro Deo 1.6
7.0 - Scorpio 2.0
7.0 - Colossus 2007d
6.5 - CM9000 Enforcer
6.5 - Frenzee 2.0
6.5 - Chessmaster 11
6.5 - Petir 4.9999
6.0 - CM10th Ogre
5.5 - Alaric 0702b
2.0 - Hamsters 0.5


The tournament can be followed and games downloaded after each round from here:
http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/discussi ... f=7&t=2837

[Alessandro Scotti]

Very-very disappointing performance of CM 11...

Yes? You should see Hamsters!

[Graham Banks]

Very-very disappointing performance of CM 11...

Yes? You should see Hamsters!

Tough field for Hamsters though Alessandro!

[Graham Banks]

THE DAWN OF A NEW KING

Dual Athlon XP2000+
Deep Shredder 11 GUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
HS-Bigbook.bkt
40 moves in 68 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
2 cycles (30 rounds)

Hamsters 0.6 has replaced Hamsters 0.5 with all relevant games replayed.

Standings after Round 20

15.0 - Toga II 1.3.4
14.5 - Glaurung 1.2.1 Crusader
13.0 - Fruit 2.1
12.0 - Hiarcs X54 Hypermodern
10.5 - Chess Tiger 2007 Gambit
10.0 - Delfi 5.2
9.5 - CM9000 Enforcer
9.5 - Alaric 0702b
9.0 - Pro Deo 1.6
8.5 - Colossus 2007d
8.5 - Chessmaster 11
8.5 - Petir 4.9999
8.0 - Scorpio 2.0
8.0 - Frenzee 2.0
8.0 - Hamsters 0.6
7.5 - CM10th Ogre


The tournament can be followed and games downloaded after each round from here:
http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/discussi ... f=7&t=2837

[Graham Banks]

THE DAWN OF A NEW KING

Dual Athlon XP2000+
Deep Shredder 11 GUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
HS-Bigbook.bkt
40 moves in 68 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL)
2 cycles (30 rounds)


Standings after Round 25

17.5 - Toga II 1.3.4
16.5 - Fruit 2.1
16.5 - Glaurung 1.2.1 Crusader
16.0 - Hiarcs X54 Hypermodern
14.0 - Chess Tiger 2007 Gambit
13.0 - Alaric 0702b
12.0 - Pro Deo 1.6
11.5 - Colossus 2007d
11.0 - Chessmaster 11
11.0 - Delfi 5.2
10.5 - CM9000 Enforcer
10.5 - CM10th Ogre
10.5 - Petir 4.9999
10.0 - Scorpio 2.0
10.0 - Frenzee 2.0
9.5 - Hamsters 0.6


The tournament can be followed and games downloaded after each round from here:
http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/discussi ... f=7&t=2837

[pichy]

I was hoping to see the new chessmaster 11 in your tournament. Nice name by the way. I am routing Toga, Hiarcs, and Glaurung.

Cheers Tony.
Toga and Hiarcs will certainly be the ones to beat.

Regards, Graham.

Don't forget about outsider Pro Deo 1.6. I'm very impressed with what i've seen so far on my machine. This 66/1 shot could cause serious disturbance under the favourites.

Cheers,

Kaj

Isnt that a beta? Was there a final release?

I won't be too surprised about Pro Deo 1.6, but it has also surprised me to see it doing so great on the 1st division of wbec:

http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/1stdiv.htm

[S.Taylor]

Very-very disappointing performance of CM 11...

Yes? You should see Hamsters!

1). CM is perhaps the most famous chess program in the world, where does Hamsters suddenly come into the picture?!



2). Yes, and regarding cm11 being disapointing (or was it "very-very" disapointing ), Yes, I might agree to that. Even though it just tops the cm's by round 25, it hardly looks convincing that there has been any strength increase for some time, and not this time either.
Unless, it is because of bugs, which will be fixed by patch, and/or that the new features of cm11 are SO flabergasting!

[Michael Sherwin]

Very-very disappointing performance of CM 11...

Yes? You should see Hamsters!

1). CM is perhaps the most famous chess program in the world, where does Hamsters suddenly come into the picture?![/qoute]

That was rather mean spirited of you, S. An author puts his heart, soul and many, many hours of hard work into his creation, so therefore it is natural to be dissapointed when the results are so dismal and to vent such dissapointment. But, as far as Hamsters claim to fame is concerned you, yourself hit upon the reason that many of us more carefully decerning people have taken notice of, and that is the suddenness of Hamsters rise in strength. Have you fooled around with the new Hamsters 6 to get a feel about what the engine has to offer? One of the reasons that I test my engine against Hamsters is because the games are more exciting than against many other engines. OBTW, the Hamsters 6 results are not dismal at all!

[Graham Banks]

Yes? You should see Hamsters!

1). CM is perhaps the most famous chess program in the world, where does Hamsters suddenly come into the picture?!

That was rather mean spirited of you, S. An author puts his heart, soul and many, many hours of hard work into his creation, so therefore it is natural to be dissapointed when the results are so dismal and to vent such dissapointment. But, as far as Hamsters claim to fame is concerned you, yourself hit upon the reason that many of us more carefully decerning people have taken notice of, and that is the suddenness of Hamsters rise in strength. Have you fooled around with the new Hamsters 6 to get a feel about what the engine has to offer? One of the reasons that I test my engine against Hamsters is because the games are more exciting than against many other engines. OBTW, the Hamsters 6 results are not dismal at all!

Alessandro was disappointed with the performance of Hamsters 0.5 which was the original starter. It was coming bottom easily.
However, Hamsters 0.6 is performing more strongly.

I agree that Alessandro deserves a lot of kudos for the rapid progress he is making with Hamsters.
All those who know their amateur engines should recognise and acknowledge this.

Regards, Graham.