TCEC Announcement - Season 2 information!

[Houdini]

So you have Houdini, Critter, Ivanhoe, and Rybka all in the same group? Why not just match Rybka against itself or Fruit for that matter?

That's a complete waste of time...

Peter

LOL. You really don't like chess, do you?

The TCEC Elite Match produced some amazing chess games.
Really awesome stuff, including the final Game 40 that's just finishing now.

Robert

[AdminX]

So you have Houdini, Critter, Ivanhoe, and Rybka all in the same group? Why not just match Rybka against itself or Fruit for that matter?

That's a complete waste of time...

Peter

LOL. You really don't like chess, do you?

The TCEC Elite Match produced some amazing chess games.
Really awesome stuff, including the final Game 40 that's just finishing now.

Robert

Final result was 23.5 for Houdini to 16.5 for Rybka.

[Matthias Gemuh]

So you have Houdini, Critter, Ivanhoe, and Rybka all in the same group? Why not just match Rybka against itself or Fruit for that matter?

That's a complete waste of time...

Peter

LOL. You really don't like chess, do you?

The TCEC Elite Match produced some amazing chess games.
Really awesome stuff, including the final Game 40 that's just finishing now.

Robert

Final result was 23.5 for Houdini to 16.5 for Rybka.

Should I now believe that a clone of Rybka 3 is thrashing Rybka 4 so badly and consistently ?

[Roger Brown]

Should I now believe that a clone of Rybka 3 is thrashing Rybka 4 so badly and consistently ?

Hello Matthias,

You are a troublemaker!

The logic goes like this:

It is clear that Rybka cannot be a Fruit clone because it pulverises Fruit - and everything else for that matter.

It is also clear that all the Ipp* and Ipp* family must be Rybka clones because the only engine strong enough to pound Rybka is....a Rybka clone.

Makes sense? Consistent? Logical?

I knew the strongest there is argument for clone detection would eventually collapse under its own weight....

Later.

[Matthias Gemuh]

Should I now believe that a clone of Rybka 3 is thrashing Rybka 4 so badly and consistently ?

Hello Matthias,

You are a troublemaker!

The logic goes like this:

It is clear that Rybka cannot be a Fruit clone because it pulverises Fruit - and everything else for that matter.

It is also clear that all the Ipp* and Ipp* family must be Rybka clones because the only engine strong enough to pound Rybka is....a Rybka clone.

Makes sense? Consistent? Logical?

I knew the strongest there is argument for clone detection would eventually collapse under its own weight....

Later.

Hi Roger,

I am surprised that nobody is blaming my ChessGUI for Rybka's great tribulation.
Pal and Martin, the 2 guys testing at extraterrestrial time controls, are both using ChessGUI, with similar results.

Matthias.

[Martin Thoresen]

In other news, there's a small article about TCEC in Norway's second largest newspaper:
http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/02/06/nyhe ... /15335985/

Best,
Martin

Just to add to this:

Chessvibes has also posted their article on TCEC. You can read it here:

http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/free- ... 23-5-16-5/

Best,
Martin

[Guenther]

In other news, there's a small article about TCEC in Norway's second largest newspaper:
http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/02/06/nyhe ... /15335985/

Best,
Martin

Just to add to this:

Chessvibes has also posted their article on TCEC. You can read it here:

http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/free- ... 23-5-16-5/

Best,
Martin

quoted from Chessvibes:

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In what could be loosely described as the unofficial world championship of chess engines, free chess engine Houdini beat commercial engine Rybka. The match lasted forty games and the final score was 23.5-16.5. Organizer Martin Thoresen: “I think open source is the way of the future.”

Well, this is more than funny considering the fact Houdini is not
open source.

Guenther

[Martin Thoresen]

Well, this is more than funny considering the fact Houdini is not
open source.

Guenther

Well, there are a few more engines out there than only Houdini.

Best,
Martin