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I recently installed several new engines that did not take part in the super-rapid play tournament. These were Ufim 8.02, Ruffian 1.05, Aristarch 4.50 and Petir 339d (Winboard). The hope was that they'd give my usual suspects a run for their mone... | Read More
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Time controls = 1 sec/move.
I made this tournament out of my 10 best engines. A simple round-robin tournament with one game against each opponent. White/black randomly assigned and who cam out on top?
...Rybka...
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I light of recent comments made to my blog from Ivom, Ivom and I are now playing two correspondence games between our best engines.
I will play my Rybka 2.2n2 (32bit) against his Glaurung 2.2 (Linux OS), and give Toga II a chance to show its colo... | Read More
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The giant finally made his entry into my tournament. Toga 2 had proven itself time and time again that it was better than all of these 'lesser' engines, but had its work cut out against its +200 elo opponent. The first game was a... Queens Pawn Ve... | Read More
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Both of these engines came from the same team and derived from original 'Fruit' engines.
The games were very close and it had to be taken, yet again, to a blitz finale. Toga 2 came through in style and is still unbeaten in all of its games. Its a... | Read More
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Another tie-breaker appeared in this match up. Spike 1.0's older brother proved more than a match for the undefeated Toga 2 and both games were drawn after complex positions. A blitz tie-break was needed to separate the pair and it followed the sa... | Read More
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Match 5 of the best chess engine search is now over. It was between the unbeaten Toga 2 and the world famous Crafty.
The first game gave Toga 2 the white pieces and saw, yet again, another Queens Pawn Veresov. The game was dead even after 54 move... | Read More
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The match is now over and it was clear that Rybka 1.0 BETA 32-bit was let down by its inability to play under 'fast' time conditions. Where Toga 2 was searching over 1 million nodes/sec, Rybka 1.0 was only going through 90k in the 1st game, and 15... | Read More
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The closest round so far. There were some thrilling games where Spike 1.0 hung on against the deep Toga 2 engine. The first was a solid Four Knights Svenonius Variation where the symmetrical position meant that neither side could capitalise. The... | Read More
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This round of the competition saw the winner of round 1 against the well-known Zappa. The round was much closer and a solid Queen's pawn Veresov in game 2 gave Zappa the point and took the match to a 5 minute blitz finale.
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