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Last Update: 02.12.1998
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S u m m e r 9 8 - T o u r n a m e n t
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Last Update: 02.12.1998
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Starting date: 05.10.1998 (Tournament B).
Starting date: 05.07.1998 (Tournament A).
This is a tournament for non-commercial programs only.
This is a double 11 Round Swiss Tournament.
Tournament A on two P-120 with 64 MB and tournament B on two K6-II-266 with 64 MB RAM.
The time control will be 60 moves in 60 minutes.
If possible we will use auto232 autoplayer.
List of Participants:
01 CM Gideon 3.0, 16 MHz, 512 KB by Ed Schroeder
02 Chess Tiger by Christophe Theron
03 Cilian by Francois Scheurer
04 Comet by Dr. Ulrich Tuerke
05 Crafty by Prof. Dr. Robert Hyatt
06 Dabbaba by Jens Baek Nielsen
07 Diogenes by Joerg Burwitz
08 Dr. T
09 Eugen by Eugenio Castillo Jimenez
10 EXchess by Dan Homan
11 Fortress by Alessandro Damiani
12 Gromit by Frank Schneider
13 Inmichess by Werner Inmann
14 Fidelity Mach III by D. and K. Spraklen
15 Francesca by Tom King
16 Goliath Light by Michael Borgstaed
17 lampChop by Peter McKenzie
18 Nero by Jari Huikari
19 Patzer by Roland Pfister
20 Rabbit by Roberto Waldteufel
21 Mephisto Rebell 5 by Ed Schroeder
22 Mother Liqour by Dr. Torsten Schoop
23 Phalanx by Dusan Dobes
24 Nut by Andrew Dados
25 SSE-Chess II 2.0 by Sam Slutzky
26 The Crazy Bishop by Rémi Coulom
27 Tristram by James F. Long
28 Voyager by Gabriele Müller
29 ZChess by Franck Zibi
To make the performance of the programs comparable, the ChessMachine (SSDF-ELO 2200), Mach III (SSDF-ELO 2000) and Rebel 5 (SSDF-ELO 1800) and the organiser of the tournament, Dr. Torsten Schoop (ELO 2000), will participate.
Who's who (in alphabetic order):
| Date of birth: 24.10.1967 |
| Nationality: German |
| Program: (Little) Goliath |
| Date of birth of the program: 1992 |
| NPS on P-120/P-200 MMX: K6-300 110.000-130.000 |
| Search algorithm(s): Little Goliath: alpha-beta (PVS) |
| Email: spobor@cityweb.de |
| URL to download Goliath Light: http://www.gambitsoft.com/share.htm |
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| Date of birth: 31.03.1964 |
| Nationality: German |
| Program: Diogenes |
| Date of birth of the program: 1989, 1992 first tournament |
| NPS on P-120/P-200 MMX: 30.000-50.000 on P 133 |
| Search algorithm(s): VS, Zerowindow, Nullmove R=2 not recursiv, Razoring, no Hashtables ! |
| Email: J.Burwitz@t-online.de |
| URL to download Diogenes: http://www.gambitsoft.com/share.htm |
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| Date of birth: April 22nd, 1974 |
| Nationality: French |
| Program: The Crazy Bishop (TCB) |
| Date of birth of the program: November 11th, 1996 (first legal game played) |
| NPS on P-120/P-200 MMX: 50000/100000 |
| Search algorithm(s): PVS |
| Email: rcoulom@hol.fr |
| URL to download TCB: http://www-leibniz.imag.fr/~coulom/remi.htm |
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| Date of birth: 27.10.1972 |
| Nationality: Italy |
| Program: Fortress |
| Date of birth of the program: 1996 |
| NPS on P-120/P-200 MMX: ? |
| Search algorithm(s): good old AlphaBeta without aspiration window, forward pruning (based on null-move), capture quiescence search, check and threat extensions, no opening book, no pondering |
| E-mail: adamiani@g26.ethz.ch |
| URL: http://www.cent.co.yu/chess/free.htm |
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| Date of birth: 19.2.1972 |
| Nationality: Czech |
| Program: Phalanx |
| Date of birth of the program: 4.3.1997 |
| NPS on P-120/P-200 MMX: 15000/60000 |
| Search algorithm(s): Alphabeta (zero window), iterative deepening, null move, chess-specific forward pruning, history and reaction killers, hashtable, static eval cache, part ply extensions, capture and check quiescence search. |
| Email: dobes@math.muni.cz |
| URL to download : ftp://ftp.math.muni.cz/pub/math/people/Dobes/ |
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| Date of birth: 7/9/72 |
| Nationality: US |
| Program: EXchess |
| Date of birth of the program: Sept 96, 1st chess program I've written |
| NPS on P-120/P-200 MMX: 30 K on a P-133 |
| Search algorithm(s): pvs, null move R=2, razoring |
| E-mail: dch@vlbi.astro.brandeis.edu |
| URL to download EXchess: http://www.astro.brandeis.edu/BRAG/people/dch/chess.html |
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| Date of birth: 5th April 1966 |
| Nationality: finnish |
| Program: Nero |
| Date of birth of the program: 23.08.1998 (Oldest Nero's Sep. 1995) |
| NPS on P-120/P-200 MMX: 5000/20000 |
| Search algorithm(s): Iterative deepening, alpha-beta, no hashtables,no permanent brain, never resigns. |
| E-mail: huikari@math.jyu.fi |
| URL to download Nero: http://www.math.jyu.fi/~huikari/NERO4.ZIP |
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Prof. Dr. Robert Hyatt
| Date of birth: 3/18/1948 |
| Nationality: US citizen |
| Program: Crafty |
| Date of birth of the program: approximately 4 years ago, although cray blitz was obviously much older than this |
| NPS on P-120/P-200 MMX: pentium pro = 80K @ 200mhz |
| Search algorithm(s): alpha/beta, null-move R=2, etc. |
| E-mail: hyatt@cis.uab.edu |
| URL to download Crafty: ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt |
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| Date of birth: 21.03.1962 |
| Nationality: German |
| Program: Inmichess |
| Date of birth of the program: 20.12.1997 |
| NPS on P-120/P-200 MMX: P120 30000 bis 60000 (depends on Hashing) |
| Search algorithm(s): alpha-beta PVS, Hash, Pawn Hash, Killer, Null move |
| E-mail: werner.inmann@si-data.de |
| URL to download Inmichess: http://members.magnet.at/werner.inmann |
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Eugenio Castillo Jimenez
| Date of birth: October 1966 |
| Nationality: Spanish |
| Program: Eugenio |
| Date of birth of the program: Eugen 7 born in 1995, but first steep was from 1992 (it was Eugen 5) |
| NPS on P-120/P-200 MMX: 25.000 nps on a K6-200 |
| Search algorithm(s): Brute force in nominal deepth, later selective move up to 8-12 plys. Null move is nearly unused |
| Email: ejimenez@lander.es |
| URL to download : http://www.cent.co.yu/chess/free.htm |
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| Date of birth: 21/09/1969 |
| Nationality: English |
| Program: Francesca |
| Date of birth of the program: 1991 |
| NPS on P-120/K6-II-300 MMX: 20000/140000 |
| Search algorithm(s): alpha-beta, null moves, other
forward pruning, speculative king attack evaluation code |
| Email: tom@hatbulb.demon.co.uk |
| URL to download : - |
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James F. Long
| Date of birth: 3/1/75 |
| Nationality: USA |
| Program: Tristram |
| Date of birth of the program: 2/26/97 |
| NPS on P-120/K6-II-266: on P166 is ~15k open/mid, ~25 to 30k endgame |
| Search algorithm(s): lpha/beta, pvs, aspiration, trans/ref, killers, history, quiescence My remarks: The program's biggest deficiency is it's terrible eval. I hope to drastically improve the evaluation over the course of the next few months, beginning with the endgame. |
| Email: wzrdking@fda.net |
| URL to download Tristram: http://home.fda.net/~wzrdking |
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| Date of birth: 240257 |
| Nationality: CH |
| Program: Voyager |
| Date of birth of the program: 1997 |
| NPS on P-120/K6-II-266: ?/120000 |
| Search algorithm(s): minimax, PVS, Nullmove reduction=3,
singular extensions, dynamic positiontabels |
| Email: hepac@bluewin.ch |
| URL to download: - |
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| Date of birth: 4 feb. 1957 |
| Nationality: Denmark |
| Program: Dabbaba |
| Date of birth of the program: may 1995 |
| NPS on P-120/P-200 MMX: 6.000 / 12.000 (Pent. II 233Mhz: 16.000) |
| Search algorithm(s): checksearch followed by alpha/beta, permanent brain, hashtables 32K, no openinglibrary, knows all draw-rules |
| E-mail: jensbaek@silkeborg.bib.dk |
| URL to download Dabbaba: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~hansb/d.chessvar/Icomputer.html |
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| Date of birth: 25.10.51 |
| Nationality: German |
| Program: Patzer |
| Date of birth of the program: 1991/2 |
| NPS on P-120/P-200 MMX: 10000/20000 |
| Search algorithm(s): PVS, Nullwindow, Nullmove, Hashtables ... |
| Email: PfisterR@aat.de |
| URL to download : - |
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| Date of birth: 04.08.1974 |
| Nationality: Switzerland |
| Program: Cilian |
| Date of birth of the program: 01.03.1997 |
| NPS on P-120/P-200 MMX: ~5K on AMD K6 at 225MHz |
| Search algorithm(s): MT() with experimental MTDRIVER(), Transpositions Tables (256K), History Heuristic, Null-Move Heuristic (r=1, recursive), Iterative Deepening |
| Email: fscheure@g26.ethz.ch |
| URL to download Cilian: http://www.cent.co.yu/chess/free.htm |
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| Date of birth: 18.7.1970 |
| Nationality: german |
| Program: Gromit |
| Date of birth of the program: about 1995, serious play first in 1996 |
| NPS on P-120/P-200 MMX: 15-30K |
| Search algorithm(s): PVS, nullmove r=2, check- and other extensions |
| E-mail: hobblefrank@t-online.de |
| URL to download Gromit: http://home.t-online.de/home/hobblefrank |
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Dr. Torsten Schoop
| Date of birth: 09 Dec 1965 |
| Nationality: German |
| Program: Mother Liqour is MiniMax Bastard Child |
| Date of birth of the program: July 1998 |
| NPS on P-120/K6-II-300 MMX: 12 K/ 45 K |
| Search algorithm(s): Alpha-Beta, no pondering, no opening book, no hashtables, no nullmove (in progress). |
| Email: tsc@fsv.de |
| URL to download : - |
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| Date of birth: 09 Dec 1965 |
| Nationality: German |
| Program: Dr. T (a case of splitting personality?) |
| Date of birth of the program: 09. December 1965 |
| NPS on P-120/P-200 MMX: 1 on hardware by nature |
| Search algorithm(s): neural net |
| Email: tsc@fsv.de |
| URL to download : - |
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| Date of birth: 12/26/78 |
| Nationality: American |
| Program: SSE-Chess II |
| Date of birth of the program: 05/98 |
| NPS on P-120/P-200 MMX: Pentium Pro 200, it gets about 40K nps while on a PII 400, it gets about 85K |
| Search algorithm(s): standard stuff, alpha-beta, PVS, quiescence search, etc |
| Email: tayx@expert.cc.purdue.edu |
| URL to download : http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/slutzksn/chess.html |
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| Date of birth: 01 April 1965 |
| Nationality: French |
| Program: Chess Tiger |
| Date of birth of the program: 1981, current version rewritten in June 97 (to take advantage of 32 bits computers) |
| NPS on P-120/P-200 MMX: 30000-40000 on P200MMX |
| Search algorithm(s): - |
| Email: ctheron@outremer.com |
| URL to download Chess Tiger: http://www.gambitsoft.com/share.htm |
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| Date of birth: 29-JAN-1953 |
| Nationality: German |
| Program: Comet |
| Date of birth of the program: 1991 |
| NPS on P-120/P-200 MMX: 25000 / 50000 |
| Search algorithm(s): alpha-beta, recursive nullmove (R=2), and knowledge based cuts at depth=1 |
| Email: utuerke@debis.com |
| URL to download Comet: http://www.gambitsoft.com/share.htm |
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| Date of birth: 13 Dec 1962 |
| Nationality: Dual French/British |
| Program: Rabbit |
| Date of birth of the program: 1998 |
| NPS on P-120/P-200 MMX: varies between 30K-50K on P-333 MMX |
| Search algorithm(s): PVS, aspiration window, preprocessor |
| Email: REWaldteufel@compuserve.com |
| URL to download: http://www.gambitsoft.com/sharee.htm |
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| Date of birth: November 2th, 1974 |
| Nationality: French |
| Program: ZChess |
| Date of birth of the program: First game: April 1997 |
| NPS on P-120/P-200 MMX: 5 k/25 k nps |
| Search algorithm(s): PVS, NULL MOVE, (heavy) Pruning. |
| Email: fzibi@worldnet.net |
| URL to download : http://www.worldnet.net/~fzibi/zchess.htm |
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