Super Tournament III Qualifier (after 71 of 76 rounds at 40

[Graham Banks]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Graham Banks at 13 September 2004 07:36:40:

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 (although I'm also considering whether or not to use the soon to be released Wizard 3.0 book instead or using own books where able).
Any games with odd first opening moves will be rerun at the end of the tournament. The list of these games will be provided by Kurt and no negotiation will be entered into once I decide which games to rerun! I do not expect that the final standings will be affected much at all by this to be honest.

STANDINGS (after 71 of 76 rounds)
53.5 - CM9000 Judge II
45.0 - CM 10th Edition (default)
43.0 - List 512
42.5 - SOS 4
41.5 - Gandalf 5.1
41.5 - Pro Deo 1.0
40.5 - Delfi 4.5
38.5 - Thinker 4.6c
36.5 - SmarThink 0.17a
35.5 - Deep Sjeng 1.6
34.5 - Pharaon 2.62
33.5 - Gothmog 1.0b10
32.5 - Anaconda 1.6.2
32.5 - Yace 0.99.87
31.0 - Tao 5.6
29.0 - Little Goliath Revival
27.5 - Fruit 1.5
26.0 - Comet B68
24.5 - Crafty 19.15
21.0 - 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.