Tournament conditions: Chess Tiger 14, GambitTiger
2, GambitTiger 2 aggressive and GambitTiger 2 aggressive plus SelSafety=8 will
play against WChess 2000, Zarkov 5, Shredder 4, Shredder 5, MChessPro 8, Hiarcs
7.32, Nimzo 8, Junior 6a, Fritz 6 (Version May 2001) and Chessmaster 8000. The
Chessmaster matches will only be played if I get Chessmaster to play autoplayer
series. If I don't there won't be an alternative opponent. But let's hope for
the best. BTW any advice concerning Chessmaster 8000 and autoplayer-series is
welcome.
The matches have the following setup: 40 moves in 120 minutes plus 60 minutes
for the rest of the game. The games will be played on two computers. The Tigers
get an Athlon-600 with 192MB RAM which means 96MB hash. The opponents get an
equal computer but with 500MHz (same mainboard, same RAM). Chessmaster will
run with 64MB hash which is said to be sufficient, MChessPro cannot handle more
than 61MB hash, all the other programs will have 120-128MB hash. Each program
plays with the own book and default settings. After each finished match all
learnfiles will be deleted, also the changed weights in the opening books will
be reset to the default values so that no program gets an advantage. One can
imagine that Tiger after 80 games learning might perform different versus a
program which has not learned from 80 games than if Tiger would also play without
any learning information.
The matches go over 10 rounds=games. So each Tiger will play a maximum of 100
games and all in all 400 TOURNAMENT games will be played (!). (What am I doing,
am I crazy? That takes three months. :-))
Addition: Actual new entries caused more opponents for Tiger, the additional
programs are ChessAcademy 6, Shredder 5.32, DeepFritz and Junior 7, which raises
the total amount by 160 up to 560. Therefore I will remove some programs, the
ones that lost too clearly to Tiger, exception is ChessAcademy 6 for which I
feel at least a moral reponsibility to continue testing because the author provided
me this program for free.