Hiarcs Paderborn 2007 Gauntlet (completed)

[Graham Banks]

HIARCS PADERBORN 2007 GAUNTLET

Athlon MP2800
Deep Shredder 11 GUI
128mb hash each
3-4-5 piece tablebases
Ponder off
HS-Classic 8moves II.bkt book
40 moves in 62 minutes repeating (adapted for the CCRL 40/40)
All engines 32-bit 1CPU





Hiarcs Paderborn 2007

(14.5-15.5) Toga II 1.4.1SE
(18.5-11.5) Ktulu 8.0
(20.0-10.0) CM11 Archangel
(18.0-12.0) Thinker 5.2e Passive
(19.5-10.5) Chess Tiger 2007.1
(16.0-14.0) Spike 1.2 Turin


The complete gauntlet pgn (zipped)
http://www.kirill-kryukov.com/chess/dis ... p?id=12190

[Tony Thomas]

Spike is such a great all around engine, the last version was released years ago, and it is still a top dog.

[Graham Banks]

Spike is such a great all around engine, the last version was released years ago, and it is still a top dog.

Yep - it's a tough old dog, that's for sure!

[swami]

Spike is such a great all around engine, the last version was released years ago, and it is still a top dog.

Completely agreed, I was impressed with Spike and have often been surprised whenever I see the results, sometimes saying "oh, this is incredibly outdated engine and it's still performing damn well against the top commercials"