Goodwill Tournament V (Chess Tiger 2007 Gambit prevails)

[Graham Banks]

GOODWILL TOURNAMENT V

Athlon XP1900+
Fritz 10 GUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
HS-10moves.ctg book
40 moves in 68 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL 40/40)
2 cycles (30 rounds)


Final Standings

23.5 - Chess Tiger 2007 Gambit
20.0 - Alaric 0702b
19.0 - CM10th Guardian
17.0 - Chiron 0.8.7
16.0 - Crafty 20.13
15.5 - Nimzo 8
15.5 - Twisted Logic 0.099x
15.0 - Booot 4.13.0
15.0 - Pro Deo 1.2 Mx4
14.5 - Quark 2.35
14.0 - SpiderChess 070603
13.5 - Trace 1.36
13.0 - DanaSah 3.13
13.0 - Colossus 2007b
10.0 - Delphil 1.8
5.5 - Tytan 9.32


The complete tournament pgn (zipped) can be downloaded from here:
http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/discussi ... hp?id=6617

[Dann Corbit]

Alaric finished ahead of 3 professional engines:
CM10, Nimzo 8, Pro Deo 1.2
This shows that Alaric is remarkably strong now.
The small size of the executable is an indication to me that Alaric also has a lot of room to grow.

Three cheers for a great result!

[Graham Banks]

Alaric finished ahead of 3 professional engines:
CM10, Nimzo 8, Pro Deo 1.2
This shows that Alaric is remarkably strong now.
The small size of the executable is an indication to me that Alaric also has a lot of room to grow.

Three cheers for a great result!

Agreed - Alaric goes from strength to strength!

Dann - did you see I'm going to try out your Superbook 2.0.abk in my next CCRL Arena tourney?
What book settings should I use for fairest results?

Regards, Graham.

[Dann Corbit]

Just use your normal default settings.
I will be very curious to see how it performs compared to other books.

[Ryan Benitez]

Alaric finished ahead of 3 professional engines:
CM10, Nimzo 8, Pro Deo 1.2
This shows that Alaric is remarkably strong now.
The small size of the executable is an indication to me that Alaric also has a lot of room to grow.

Three cheers for a great result!

I am sure Alaric has a lot of room to grow but...
Rybka 1.0 was huge!

I don't know anything about Alaric but I would think the size is an indication of small and compact data structures. From the results here it does look like a very good engine. I hope it continues to advance.

[Kirill Kryukov]

Alaric finished ahead of 3 professional engines:
CM10, Nimzo 8, Pro Deo 1.2
This shows that Alaric is remarkably strong now.
The small size of the executable is an indication to me that Alaric also has a lot of room to grow.

Three cheers for a great result!

In our blitz list new Alaric 707 is 89 points higher than 0702b. So not only it is already strong, it is also one of the fastest improving engines this year.

Alaric versions in CCRL 40/4
Alaric versions in CCRL 40/40

Best,
Kirill