Nunn website updated, some notes

[Heinz van Kempen]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Heinz van Kempen at 20 February 2004 17:33:35:

Hi all,
some notes:
I added a file with approx. 7500 GM and IM games with the 20 Nunn positions. The file is huge. 1.5 MB. and probably only interesting for the authors who want to use Nunn positions to improve their opening books and add those ones the engine performs well with priority and remove others.
There are some of my amateur notes to each position. I am not very familiar with each one and so far it is done superficially. Hope I can add a better one soon.
Nunn test matches (that like the gauntlets also will count for rating calculation):


Quark 2.35 vs. AnMon 5.30             18.0:22.0
Quark 2.05b vs. AnMon 5.30            14.5:25.5
Quark 2.35 vs. WildCat 3.0            18.0:22.0
Quark 2.05b vs. WildCat 3.0           14.5:25.5
So here a clearly better performance for the new version. In the tournament it is only 3.5 points better, but only due to a weird result against the old version.  Otherwise it would be 10 points better than the older version. Those results of different versions of the same engine anyway do not count for rating calculation later.
Concerning The Baron I finally stopped to believe in a statistical anomaly and checked the log-file. There are two error messages. I sent it to Richard. Maybe here is the reason why it scored that bad. Anyway The Baron will be replaced presumably by the new public 1.2.0 that so far scores well.
Tournament B is updated twice as I will need the following days to run gauntlets.
And finally Pyramid. First cycle is almost concluded and games from the last three days are in the download file now. I ask Tord if the annotations are readable, otherwise this will not have much use. Before the next cycle starts I want to take out those "dead" engines that are not updated for more than two years. In my opinion these are the following (please correct me if I am wrong):
Phalanx, Resp, InmiChess, Exchess, Ant and Ghost.
Best Regards
Heinz


http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/

[Tord Romstad]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Tord Romstad at 20 February 2004 17:43:53:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: Nunn website updated, some notes geschrieben von: / posted by: Heinz van Kempen at 20 February 2004 17:33:35:

I ask Tord if the annotations are readable,

Hello Heinz,
Could you ask somebody else, please? I'm going on holiday on Sunday and have
too many things to do before I leave. I doubt that I will find the time to
study your annotations. I look forward to looking at them when I am back in
Oslo again in a couple of weeks, though.
Tord

[Heinz van Kempen]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Heinz van Kempen at 20 February 2004 17:49:39:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: Re: Nunn website updated, some notes geschrieben von: / posted by: Tord Romstad at 20 February 2004 17:43:53:

I ask Tord if the annotations are readable,

Hello Heinz,
Could you ask somebody else, please? I'm going on holiday on Sunday and have
too many things to do before I leave. I doubt that I will find the time to
study your annotations. I look forward to looking at them when I am back in
Oslo again in a couple of weeks, though.
Tord

Hello Tord,
have a nice vacation then. The game vs. PostModernist was very exciting anyway.
Best Regards
Heinz

[Uri Blass]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Uri Blass at 20 February 2004 17:50:18:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: Nunn website updated, some notes geschrieben von: / posted by: Heinz van Kempen at 20 February 2004 17:33:35:

Hi all,
some notes:
I added a file with approx. 7500 GM and IM games with the 20 Nunn positions. The file is huge. 1.5 MB. and probably only interesting for the authors who want to use Nunn positions to improve their opening books and add those ones the engine performs well with priority and remove others.
There are some of my amateur notes to each position. I am not very familiar with each one and so far it is done superficially. Hope I can add a better one soon.
Nunn test matches (that like the gauntlets also will count for rating calculation):



http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/

>Quark 2.35 vs. AnMon 5.30             18.0:22.0
>Quark 2.05b vs. AnMon 5.30            14.5:25.5
>Quark 2.35 vs. WildCat 3.0            18.0:22.0
>Quark 2.05b vs. WildCat 3.0           14.5:25.5
>So here a clearly better performance for the new version. In the tournament it is only 3.5 points better, but only due to a weird result against the old version.  Otherwise it would be 10 points better than the older version. Those results of different versions of the same engine anyway do not count for rating calculation later.
>Concerning The Baron I finally stopped to believe in a statistical anomaly and checked the log-file. There are two error messages. I sent it to Richard. Maybe here is the reason why it scored that bad. Anyway The Baron will be replaced presumably by the new public 1.2.0 that so far scores well.
>Tournament B is updated twice as I will need the following days to run gauntlets.
>And finally Pyramid. First cycle is almost concluded and games from the last three days are in the download file now. I ask Tord if the annotations are readable, otherwise this will not have much use. Before the next cycle starts I want to take out those "dead" engines that are not updated for more than two years. In my opinion these are the following (please correct me if I am wrong):
>Phalanx, Resp, InmiChess, Exchess, Ant and Ghost.
>Best Regards
>Heinz
>

Resp is from 12.06.2002
It is not an engine that was not updated for more than 2 years.
Uri

[Heinz van Kempen]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Heinz van Kempen at 20 February 2004 17:55:39:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: Re: Nunn website updated, some notes geschrieben von: / posted by: Uri Blass at 20 February 2004 17:50:18:

Resp is from 12.06.2002
It is not an engine that was not updated for more than 2 years.
Uri

Hello Uri ,
thanks, so Resp will stay in a few months more and the other five ones will be replaced by the next from my list that start at the bottom, if there are no other protests .
Best Regards
Heinz