Zappa wins endgame engine tournament

[bnculp]

Endgame engine tournament

Intel quad QX6700, Vista Ultimate x64, 4gb ram
Chessbase GUI (Fritz 10)
1gb hash and 4 threads for each engine
3-4-5 piece Nalimov endgame tablebases (EGBB bitbases for Toga)
20 endgame positions originally posted by Sune Larsson http://www.chesspraga.cz/download/tests ... EGtest.rar
Ponder off , Time control : 10 min + 1 sec
Round robin alternating colors
40 cycles (600 rounds)

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1	Zappa Mexico II x64		112.0/200
2	Rybka 2.3.2a mp x64		105.5/200
3	Deep Shredder 11 x64  	103.5/200
4	Naum 3.0 x64      		  97.0/200
5	Hiarcs 11.2 MP    		  93.5/200
6	Toga II 1.4 beta5c		  88.5/200

[Spock]

Go Zappa !! Such a wonderful engine

[M ANSARI]

Yeah ... hopefully Anthony is still working on his code. Rybka needs some competition.

[Tony Thomas]

Yeah ... hopefully Anthony is still working on his code. Rybka needs some competition.

Strelka 3.0.. Realistically Naum 3.1 is the closest challenge...

[mercury]

It would have been interesting to test Fritz 10 in the tournament.

[George Tsavdaris]

Endgame engine tournament

Intel quad QX6700, Vista Ultimate x64, 4gb ram
Chessbase GUI (Fritz 10)
1gb hash and 4 threads for each engine
3-4-5 piece Nalimov endgame tablebases (EGBB bitbases for Toga)
20 endgame positions originally posted by Sune Larsson http://www.chesspraga.cz/download/tests ... EGtest.rar
Ponder off , Time control : 10 min + 1 sec
Round robin alternating colors
40 cycles (600 rounds)

Code: Select all

1	Zappa Mexico II x64		112.0/200
2	Rybka 2.3.2a mp x64		105.5/200
3	Deep Shredder 11 x64  	103.5/200
4	Naum 3.0 x64      		  97.0/200
5	Hiarcs 11.2 MP    		  93.5/200
6	Toga II 1.4 beta5c		  88.5/200

Interesting. And where i can find the games?