Congrats to Glaurung and Arasan

[fern]

They were not the winners, but they got high positions, at very few points of distance with respect the top two.
Glaurung, prepared for a very discrete and sensate person, a known pal here, Tom, deserves the most. Clearly Glaurung is part or almost of the top 5 league.
Same with Arasan. Jon Dart is a amiable guy that has never made too much noise with his program, but he has persevered and there you have it, in the first third of the table. Arasan is stronger by the day and still now can maul everyone here, easily.
Anyone deserves praise, but I cannot help to concentrate my praise to this two programs and these two gentlemen.
My best to both
Fernando

[playwaycool]

Yes, I agree. I thank Tord Romstad for giving me the chance to Operate Glaurung at CCT.


The games were very interesting for Glaurung. Glaurung only loss was against Hiarcs, the game looked close to a draw but Impressive play paid off for Hiarcs team!


I believe Tord would probably be happy with the results! 5 points out of these top programs is a nice score. Although Glaurung won two games on disconnection, Junior had a winning ending but the game against ikarus it is draw or in favor to Glaurung.


Lets not forget Ktulu (Another program I was operating) Ktulu only loss was against Glaurung heh really The second loss was against Arasan but Ktulu loss due to disconnection rule. To my eval that had. Ktulu had a score of +4 Which it Appears winning game for Ktulu, at worst a draw. But it's all cool. Ktulu played interesting chess. The ending played by Ktulu in Arasan game was amazing in my opinion. It ignored the attack potential and decided to go into minor pieces ending!


I would like to congrat Naum and Rybka team for their first place win! Also Zappa for 3rd place. I would like to thank Peter Skinner for Directing the event, I really enjoyed the CCT Tournament. I enjoyed the chatting, Games played by many chess programs

[George Tsavdaris]

They were not the winners, but they got high positions, at very few points of distance with respect the top two.
Glaurung, prepared for a very discrete and sensate person, a known pal here, Tom, deserves the most. Clearly Glaurung is part or almost of the top 5 league.

He is called Tord....
I hope he continues to improve it since there is a big potential to this engine and Glaurung 3.0 sounds perfect!

Arasan also is a veteran and all this years it's a stable good program. Not the strongest but comes always with improvements.... I expect sometime a new version of Arasan that it will a surprise and be powerful.
Arasan also has one of my favorite names for a Chess engine.

[S.Taylor]

They were not the winners, but they got high positions, at very few points of distance with respect the top two.
Glaurung, prepared for a very discrete and sensate person, a known pal here, Tom, deserves the most. Clearly Glaurung is part or almost of the top 5 league.

He is called Tord....
I hope he continues to improve it since there is a big potential to this engine and Glaurung 3.0 sounds perfect!

Arasan also is a veteran and all this years it's a stable good program. Not the strongest but comes always with improvements.... I expect sometime a new version of Arasan that it will a surprise and be powerful.
Arasan also has one of my favorite names for a Chess engine.

Well Arasan has been my favorite for a long time simply because I had very limited time and computer availability for a few years, and it so happened that I easily downloaded Arasan, and I found it strong enough as a personal challenge.
I couldn't do too much with it like I wanted to, and like I used to do with older Hiarcs, Fritz, Genius etc., but I felt it was always rather anti-human, and tricky. And it atleast gave me a good chess workout, when I had no time or patience or money or easy computer access, to install other programs anywhere.

(Oh! I was always sincere when I was interested in al other programs, and I DID buy 3 or 4 over the past few years, but could not easily manage them from computer to computer etc. My intention was to do much more in chess and computer chess then I actually did. er..... ooo yes! and I DID have a bit of an issue of trying to wait for programs to have a more marked improvement in strength (before buying more)! Well, I can't say that Rybka didn't do that! Anything which equalls Rybka, or even anything from 70 elo below, is already good enough to fascinate me now).

[jdart]

Thanks for the kind words.

Arasan got a "gift" in the tournament when Ktulu had connection problems and forfeited. It lost to Crafty, Hiarcs, & Junior - these are strong programs of course, but also all of these had a big hardware advantage. But overall, it did ok and I am glad to be able to have it play a wide range of opponents. It seems like 90% of the computer accounts on ICC are Rybka now, and they even play each other - I never understood the point of that. I'd like to see more of the ICC engines continue to play online. I've found it a great way to find bugs.

I am going to release Arasan 10.2 pretty soon, which will be more or less the one that played in CCT10.

--Jon