Super Tournament III Qualifier - official final standings

[Graham Banks]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Graham Banks at 26 September 2004 05:10:08:

Athlon XP2000
256mb hash each (or closest allowed by each program)
3,4,5 piece tablebases
All using Fritz Powerbook tournament book (maximum variety, minimum 5 games for a move to be played, no learning)
40 moves in 40 minutes repeating.
Ponder off
Tournament run under Deep Fritz 8 GUI

These are the official final standings after all games with unsatisfactory openings (due to the powerbook settings used) were rerun. The affected games were rerun using the powerbook with optimised settings.

STANDINGS
56.0 - CM9000 Judge II
50.5 - CM 10th Edition (default)
48.5 - List 512
46.5 - Pro Deo 1.0 (original)
44.5 - Delfi 4.5
43.0 - Gandalf 5.1
42.0 - SOS 4
41.0 - SmarThink 0.17a
38.5 - Deep Sjeng 1.6
37.0 - Thinker 4.6c
36.0 - Anaconda 1.6.2
36.0 - Gothmog 1.0b10
35.0 - Pharaon 2.62
34.5 - Yace 0.99.87
33.5 - Tao 5.6
31.5 - Fruit 1.5
31.0 - Little Goliath Revival
27.0 - Comet B68
25.0 - Crafty 19.15
23.0 - Slow Chess 2.93a

An updated full crosstable and a download file of all games will be on Kurt’s website as soon as I have tidied up the database and emailed it to him. http://www.utzingerk.com/banks/st_03_qual.htm
The field for Super Tournament III Final which will be run at 40 moves in 120 minutes repeating:
Deep Fritz 8
Shredder 8
Hiarcs 9
Ruffian 2.1.0
CM 10th Edition (Creep settings)
CM9000 (Alliance settings)
Chess Tiger 15
Aristarch 4.50
Deep Junior 8
List 512
Pro Deo 1.0 (Ed’s preferred settings)
Pharaon 3.00b
All engines will use their own opening book where able. CM9000 Alliance will use the CM8000 book, CM 10th Creep will use the powerbook with settings optimised and List 512 will use the general.ctg opening book.
Comments welcome as always.
Graham.