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Subject: A little bit different approach in testing strong and weaker engines!!

Author: Dr. Wael Deeb

Date: 09:56:07 11/29/05


W.A.E.L_
Hardware:AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 64 3200+,512Mb DDR2 400Mz Ram,
hashtables=128Mb for each engine!
Software:Windows XP Professional,GUI:Arena 1.1 & Deep Fritz 8 GUI!
Nalimov EGTB:all 4 pieces and most of 5 pieces!
Conditions:
Time controls: 60 minutes per game + 20 seconds increment!
Each engine plays 2 games against all other engines!
Ponder off!
Learning enabled!
No adapters are used!
No frozen,or out of time games!Just clear cut results!

_Participate 16 engines + 1 human!
_Every engine starts with 1800 ELO,which is calculated manualy using FIDE
calculating method!


Capture R01
Chess Tiger 2004
Crafty Cito 1.4.2
Deep Sjeng 1.6
Fruit 2.2.1 i
Hiarcs 8 Bareev
Nimzo 7.32
Nimzo '99
Nimzo 2000
Patriot 1.3.0 i
Patzer 3.11a
Rebel 12.00.01
Shredder Classic 1.3 i
Toga II 1.1 i
X3D Fritz 8.1.1.0
Fritz for Fun 8.1.3.0
Dr.Wael Deeb [Human]

Dragon 4.2
Alfil 5.07
Delfi 2.4
Ant 6.06 Leiden
Queen 2.36
Atlas 2.0
Amateur 2.0
Booot 4.5
Bestia 0.88
Terra 2.9
Bruja 1.6e
ExChess 4.03c
Delphil 0.9j
Neurosis 1.2
FireFly 1.4.2
Small potato 0.6.1
Dr.Wael Deeb [Human]

Some notes:
1.I am a little bit tired and to say the truth much annoyed from the endless
boring matchs illustrating Fruit 2.2.1 against Shredder,Shredder agains Toga
II,Toga II against Fritz 9,Fruit 2.2.1 against all the band etc.,of course with
all my respect for all the testers and their efforts!So I decided to test from
another angle!I included a lot of interesting engines against Fruit and
myself....Ahem,after playing more than 800 games at slow time control against
Chessbase,winboard and UCI,I have about 1920-1980 Elo in my still growing rating
list which I hope to publish in the first quarter of next year :-)

2.My opening book under Arena,iBase + v2.0 is totally oriented and fully
optimized for the Fruity family as a deep admire for it's programmer.Of course
it's a suitable opening book for all type of engines,the current version of
iBase + v2.0 is a huge improvment over the public release which is downloadable
at www.exactachess.com!Someday I will release it and yes Roger Brown,will post
all the improvments which are made :-)

3.Until now,I found Deep Fritz 8 GUI the most stable one for engine matchs,I use
it only for ChessBase native engines....

Feel free to post your notes,I appreciate any comment!
BTW,The 2 tournaments are under way from about 2 weeks and I must admit that I
have over 80% performance in the first tournament ;-)......Ok,sorry,couldn't
hold the temptation,please don't flame me,just kidding :-) ;-)
Cheers,
Dr.Wael Deeb

P.S.Finally I changed the time control and stopped using sudden death,by the
request of many fans....



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