Author: Carmelo Calzerano
Date: 04:18:57 12/22/01
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On December 21, 2001 at 16:11:18, Jason Williamson wrote: >On December 21, 2001 at 12:51:59, Carmelo Calzerano wrote: > >>On December 21, 2001 at 05:23:50, Will Singleton wrote: >> >>>Thanh Nha Duong (IM) just played 43 straight games of 3 2 blitz vs Leila >>>(squirtle) on ICC. The first game started at 00:41 server time, and the match >>>ended at 04:43. Four hours of continuous blitz chess against a strong program >>>running on an AMD 1900+. >>> >>>Results: Leila 29 wins, 10 losses, 4 draws. >>>Start rating: Leila 2772 DuongThanh 2259 >>>End Rating: Leila 2597 DuongThanh 2434 >>> >>>DT played anti-computer chess, winning with a combination of blocked positions >>>and kside attacks. Leila didn't quite know how to counter. >>> >>>Quite interesting. I think other top amateurs would do better than Leila here. >>>Something for her author to work on. >> >>You are right, definitely. >>Leila has no anti-human code at all; moreover, it uses a very >>poor (and perhaps buggy) kingsafety evaluation. There is a lot >>of room for improvements here ;-) >> >>If you have the games against DuongThanh or other strong human >>players, please send me. It's the first match Leila played against >>an IM AFAIK, since it has only been tested against programs; and >>I'm sure I will find tons of useful info. >> >>Thanks, >>Carmelo > > >To get the games merly log on to the ICC and type search squirtle DuongThanh > >This will return all 43 games which you can look at online or have the ICC mail >to you in PGN format. Sadly you will need to manually mail each one though :). Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately I have no ICC account at the moment, so probably I'll have to manually c&p the games somewhere instead :-) Bye, Carmelo
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