Tony Thomas wrote: In a 3 game tournament, anything can happen.
IF the finals will be four games each as announced (I'm not sure), then each engine will play sixteen games total. The discripition on the web page is outdated: Actually they played six rounds today, not three and this is also planned for tomorrow.
There was a strange CPU problem which is at least one of the reasons which caused Rybka's first loss. I have read that Vista SP1 forces the installation of a bugfix for AMD Phenom cpus, which slows down the cpu. The Rybka people found a fix which removes this, bringing the Phenoms to full speed. (That is only my simplified view of this matter.)
I didn't read all the details of the technical stuff which was discussed in the Rybka forum about this. People who are interested in this particular topic, should take a look into the two, or more "Mainz" threads there (Mainz is the city where this tournament is played, as a part of a big chess event with Anand, Kosteniuk, and many others).
I didnt see any descriptions on the page Jorge posted, may be I over looked them. For some reason, I thought that the last invitational was 1RR. I just noticed that Naum won the match against Rybka 1.5-0.5, you go Alex .
Edit : I finally found the correct link by visiting the homepage..If I had to take a guess, the final will be played between Naum and Rybka..
Sorry for not posting the correct link, here is the link where the rest of the games will be played. Simply click Online, under the correct date
Tony Thomas wrote: In a 3 game tournament, anything can happen.
IF the finals will be four games each as announced (I'm not sure), then each engine will play sixteen games total. The discripition on the web page is outdated: Actually they played six rounds today, not three and this is also planned for tomorrow.
There was a strange CPU problem which is at least one of the reasons which caused Rybka's first loss. I have read that Vista SP1 forces the installation of a bugfix for AMD Phenom cpus, which slows down the cpu. The Rybka people found a fix which removes this, bringing the Phenoms to full speed. (That is only my simplified view of this matter.)
I didn't read all the details of the technical stuff which was discussed in the Rybka forum about this. People who are interested in this particular topic, should take a look into the two, or more "Mainz" threads there (Mainz is the city where this tournament is played, as a part of a big chess event with Anand, Kosteniuk, and many others).
I didnt see any descriptions on the page Jorge posted, may be I over looked them. For some reason, I thought that the last invitational was 1RR. I just noticed that Naum won the match against Rybka 1.5-0.5, you go Alex .
Edit : I finally found the correct link by visiting the homepage..If I had to take a guess, the final will be played between Naum and Rybka..
I am afraid that it will be between Rybka and Shredder again
