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Match played under the following conditions: Hardware = Q6600 60 games, using Noomen Testsuite 2008 Both play 30 positions, alternating white and black Both use 4 cores Tempo = game in 60 mins Ponder = off Result: Rybka 4 - Houdini 1.03a 35.5 - 24.5 (+13 -2 =45) or +64 elo My own observations: 1. On...

Thanks, Gian-Carlo:-). Good luck with cluster Deep Sjeng, a truly great job that you managed this! A real pity that ICGA is more or less 'punishing' you for this fine achievement by not allowing more than 8 cores in the WCCC. As you rightly pointed out some 8 cores are far more expensive than a clus...

In the last WCCC in Beijing there were specific rules concerning the use of opening books. The rules stated (if I recall correctly) that each book author can only be part of one team (= program+GUI+book). To prevent other chess programs using the same book, each team had to reveil its book author be...

I settle for a 22-18 Naum victory.

My prediction:

Hiarcs 12 Q6600 - Naum 4 A1200 21.5-18.5

Hi Richard,

Can you broadcast some of the games at Playchess? I am interested to follow your tournament!

Best wishes, Jeroen

OK, thanks Lars

Hi Lars,

Which book is Naum 4 using?

Kind regards, Jeroen

Not really a good name, as in the game Go unlimited hardware is still permitted (as well as in other games). Guess why

Here is a result between Rybka 3 and Naum 4 using a testsuite:

http://home.deds.nl/~ejwebspace/tourney/