"9profis+9free" - a Half of the Tournament

[Miroslav Nikolic]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Miroslav Nikolic at 09 March 2004 19:40:18:

Beginning of the tournament: 12. 12. 2003.
Hardware: PIII 800MHz, 256Mb RAM
OS: Windows Xp
GUI: Chessprogram8 (Fritz 8)
Tournament: 9profis+9free, Round robin, 4 rounds
Time Control: 30'/40, 30'/40 + 30' (rest)
Hash: 32 MB
Ponder off
Resign on
Tablebase: Nalimov 4,3,2-pieces
TB Cache : 6 MB
Book used: Select.ctg for all (created by in a few months; based on over DIFFERENTS 70.000 games; 77% draw, 12% 1-0, 11% 0-1; average ELO 2.600; minimal length of draw games -
22 moves, minimal length of 1-0 & 0-1 games 32 moves; relative ECO length 19
moves; openings: A 13929, B 16564, C 13865, D 15075, E 15103 games; this
openings book is, naturally, free for all chess friends, but too big for
sending per e-mail (sorry)
Book learning off
Results:

01 Junior 8...........26.5/34
02 CM9000 M2v.5.......23.0/34
03 Ruffian 1.0.5......22.5/34
04 Shredder 7.04......19.5/34
05 Hiarcs8 Bareev.....19.0/34
06 Fritz 8............18.5/34 290.00
07 Hiarcs 9...........18.5/34 280.00
08 SOS 4 for Arena....18.0/34
09 List 504...........17.5/34
10 El Chinito 3.25....17.0/34
11 Chess Tiger 15.....15.5/34 263.75
12 Aristarch 4.21.....15.5/34 252.75
13 Gandalf 5.1........14.0/34 237.25
14 Delfi 4.4..........14.0/34 216.00
15 Nimzo 8............13.0/34
16 Crafty 19.06.......12.0/34
17 SmarThink 0.17a....11.0/34 173.00
18 Kaissa 1.7.........11.0/34 172.75

Notices:
1) First 6 games: ELChinito 3.1C1; first 12 games: SOS.3 for Arena
2) Junior 8 1st without own book (+3,5 pts)!
3) M2v5 are best settings for CM 9000 on my computer (Milan, congratulations on
your settings!)!
4) Shredder 7.04, with Haddad1.2DP5 settings, the fourth (Sorry Zied, my
friend!)
5) Very good ply and place for free Ruffian!
6) Hiarcs8 Bareev, Hiarcs 9 and Fritz 8 (v8.026) (almost) equal.
7) SOS 4, List 5.04 and El Chinito before Chess Tiger 15 (gambit)!
8) Bad score for SmarThink.
9) Openings: A 7 games, B 76 (+35, -23, = 18), C 75 (+35, -19, =21), D 53 (+16,
-17, =20), E 95 (+38, -27, =30); most frequently B 66 - 15 games, C 99 - 20
games, E 15 - 28 games.

To be continued!
Best regards,
Miroslav