A Romp With Romi- Results thru Round 3

[geots]

A ROMP WITH ROMI

Shredder 11 GUI
Intel Dual Core
Single Processor- 3.2ghz
128mb hash
3 & 4 man egtb
HS-Book 2.0.bkt (w/ 12 move CCRL limit)
40 moves in 58 minutes repeating ( Adapted to CCRL 40/40)
All Engines = 32 bit
4 cycles (36 rounds)


Participants

Crafty 22.0
AnMon 5.60
Cerebro 3.01c
Viper 0.1
Little Goliath Evolution 3.12
Twisted Logic 20071202x
Cyrano 0.3
Matacz 1.3
RomiChess P3k
Trace 1.37a
























Round 1

AnMon 5.60 v Viper 0.1 draw
Cerebro 3.01c v Twisted Logic 20071202x (0-1)
Crafty 22.0 v TRACE 1.37a (1-0)
Cyrano 0.3 v RomiChess P3k (1-0)
Little Goliath Evolution 3.12 v Matacz 1.3 draw


Round 2

Twisted Logic 20071202x v AnMon 5.60 (1-0)
TRACE 1.37a v Cerebro 3.01c (1-0)
RomiChess P3k v Crafty 22.0 (0-1)
Matacz 1.3 v Cyrano 0.3 draw
Viper 0.1 v Little Goliath Evolution 3.12 (1-0)


Round 3

AnMon 5.60 v TRACE 1.37a (1-0)
Cerebro 3.01c v RomiChess P3k (1-0)
Crafty 22.0 v Matacz 1.3 (1-0)
Cyrano 0.3 v Little Goliath Evolution 3.12 (0-1)
Viper 0.1 v Twisted Logic 20071202x draw



Standings thru Round 3

3.0- Crafty 22.0
2.5- Twisted Logic 20071202x
2.0- Viper 0.1
1.5- AnMon 5.60
1.5- Little Goliath Evolution 3.12
1.5- Cyrano 0.3
1.0- Matacz 1.3
1.0- TRACE 1.37a
1.0- Cerebro 3.01c
0.0- RomiChess P3k


All game PGNs available from:
http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/discussi ... f=7&t=3260

[Michael Sherwin]

Hi George,

Thanks for the tournament!

However, talk about being tossed into the lions den (viper pitt?) .

Just make sure you sweep all of Romi's little pieces into one pile, so I can put her back together again!

[geots]

Hi George,

Thanks for the tournament!

However, talk about being tossed into the lions den (viper pitt?) .

Just make sure you sweep all of Romi's little pieces into one pile, so I can put her back together again!

I can assure you Michael, that no one is pulling harder for her to do well than i am. My only question to you would be that as much time as you have spent conditioning and refining your program to take advantage of learning- and then have her thrown into tournaments where she cannot use any learning- was she, in your opinion ready for that. I myself would not have a clue. All i know about programming is how to spell the word. Would be interested in your thoughts on that.

Best,

[Tony Thomas]

I think that Romi can pull through at the end and avoid the last place. It should be able to get ahead of Cyrano and Matacz if luck permits.

[Michael Sherwin]

Hi George,

Thanks for the tournament!

However, talk about being tossed into the lions den (viper pitt?) .

Just make sure you sweep all of Romi's little pieces into one pile, so I can put her back together again!

I can assure you Michael, that no one is pulling harder for her to do well than i am. My only question to you would be that as much time as you have spent conditioning and refining your program to take advantage of learning- and then have her thrown into tournaments where she cannot use any learning- was she, in your opinion ready for that. I myself would not have a clue. All i know about programming is how to spell the word. Would be interested in your thoughts on that.

Best,

I enjoy Romi vs other computer compitition. However, Romi's style is meant for play against humans. I want human players to really enjoy their experiance. It is exciting to have a program that really comes after you, makes all kind of mistakes in the process and then beats you anyway.

I was surprised that this uncatious approach also works against some rather strong chess programs. I am also not surprised that it does not work against some others.

This group of engines (A Romp With Romi) as a whole is a group (with the exception of Cyrano) that could have been hand picked on purpose to minimize Romi's performance vs their average rating. But, you would have had no way to know that before hand. It was just the luck of the draw! . Anyway I look forward to Romi taking at least a few scalps!

[geots]

Hi George,

Thanks for the tournament!

However, talk about being tossed into the lions den (viper pitt?) .

Just make sure you sweep all of Romi's little pieces into one pile, so I can put her back together again!

I can assure you Michael, that no one is pulling harder for her to do well than i am. My only question to you would be that as much time as you have spent conditioning and refining your program to take advantage of learning- and then have her thrown into tournaments where she cannot use any learning- was she, in your opinion ready for that. I myself would not have a clue. All i know about programming is how to spell the word. Would be interested in your thoughts on that.

Best,

I enjoy Romi vs other computer compitition. However, Romi's style is meant for play against humans. I want human players to really enjoy their experiance. It is exciting to have a program that really comes after you, makes all kind of mistakes in the process and then beats you anyway.

I was surprised that this uncatious approach also works against some rather strong chess programs. I am also not surprised that it does not work against some others.

This group of engines (A Romp With Romi) as a whole is a group (with the exception of Cyrano) that could have been hand picked on purpose to minimize Romi's performance vs their average rating. But, you would have had no way to know that before hand. It was just the luck of the draw! . Anyway I look forward to Romi taking at least a few scalps!

I assure you Michael, this tournament was in no way set up to hurt Romis rating in any way. I sincerely hope you will trust me on that.

Best to You,

[Michael Sherwin]

Hi George,

Thanks for the tournament!

However, talk about being tossed into the lions den (viper pitt?) .

Just make sure you sweep all of Romi's little pieces into one pile, so I can put her back together again!

I can assure you Michael, that no one is pulling harder for her to do well than i am. My only question to you would be that as much time as you have spent conditioning and refining your program to take advantage of learning- and then have her thrown into tournaments where she cannot use any learning- was she, in your opinion ready for that. I myself would not have a clue. All i know about programming is how to spell the word. Would be interested in your thoughts on that.

Best,

I enjoy Romi vs other computer compitition. However, Romi's style is meant for play against humans. I want human players to really enjoy their experiance. It is exciting to have a program that really comes after you, makes all kind of mistakes in the process and then beats you anyway.

I was surprised that this uncatious approach also works against some rather strong chess programs. I am also not surprised that it does not work against some others.

This group of engines (A Romp With Romi) as a whole is a group (with the exception of Cyrano) that could have been hand picked on purpose to minimize Romi's performance vs their average rating. But, you would have had no way to know that before hand. It was just the luck of the draw! . Anyway I look forward to Romi taking at least a few scalps!

I assure you Michael, this tournament was in no way set up to hurt Romis rating in any way. I sincerely hope you will trust me on that.

Best to You,

Absolutly I trust that it was not intentionaly set up that way. And I hope that I am wrong about my projected outcome. But, I do believe that Romi (and her rating) will be brutally mauled by the engine selection. If that happens then I will ask you to change the name of the tournament to 'A Romp On Romi'.

Anyway, I will enjoy watching!

[Tony Thomas]

Actually mike losing against a much stronger opponents help you gain score. If Romi can score about 30% vs these opponents, she will actually gain few points in her rating. The rating system is weird aint it?

[Michael Sherwin]

Actually mike losing against a much stronger opponents help you gain score. If Romi can score about 30% vs these opponents, she will actually gain few points in her rating. The rating system is weird aint it?

Hey Tony,

If Romi scores 30% or more against this group of engines I will give George a big kiss!

If Romi scores under 15% I will give you a big kiss!

[Tony Thomas]

Actually mike losing against a much stronger opponents help you gain score. If Romi can score about 30% vs these opponents, she will actually gain few points in her rating. The rating system is weird aint it?

Hey Tony,

If Romi scores 30% or more against this group of engines I will give George a big kiss!

If Romi scores under 15% I will give you a big kiss!

Who gets the kiss if Romi scores between 15 and 30, please dont waste it on goat..