Super Tournament III Qualifier (after 64 of 76 rounds at 40

[Graham Banks]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Graham Banks at 07 September 2004 20:42:59:

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
The top three finishers aside from CM9000 Judge II and CM 10th Edition (which have already qualified) will progress to the final stage which will be played at 40/120 with the powerbook settings optimised.
Any games with oddball openings will be rerun at the end. The list of such games will be provided by Kurt Utzinger.

STANDINGS (after 64 of 76 rounds)
52.0 - CM9000 Judge II
41.5 - CM 10th Edition (default)
38.0 - Gandalf 5.1
38.0 - List 512
38.0 - SOS 4
36.0 - Pro Deo 1.0
35.5 - Thinker 4.6c
35.0 - Delfi 4.5
35.0 - SmarThink 0.17a
32.0 - Deep Sjeng 1.6
31.5 - Pharaon 2.62
28.5 - Anaconda 1.6.2
28.5 - Gothmog 1.0b10
28.0 - Yace 0.99.87
27.5 - Tao 5.6
25.5 - Fruit 1.5
25.5 - Little Goliath Revival
22.5 - Crafty 19.15
22.0 - Comet B68
19.5 - Slow Chess 2.93a

An updated full crosstable and a download file of all games to date should be up on Kurt’s website sometime soon. http://www.utzingerk.com/banks/st_03_qual.htm
Comments welcome as always.
Graham.