hereby my comments on the nicely won 18th game of the TCEC EM2 match

[Event "TCEC Elite Match - Season 2"]
[Site "http://www.tcec-chess.org"]
[Date "2011.04.16"]
[Round "9.2"]
[White "Houdini 1.5a"]
[Black "Rybka 4.1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A00"]
[Annotator "Mourik,Bram"]
[PlyCount "128 ...

T8100 (6,29 Fritzmark), Blitz 4m+2s Nunn2 50 games

1 Houdini 1.01 w32 2_CPU +13/=29/-8 55.00% 27.5/50
2 Stockfish 1.8 JA +8/=29/-13 45.00% 22.5/50

T8100 (6,29 Fritzmark), Blitz 4m+2s Nunn2

1 Houdini 1.01 w32 2_CPU +16/=22/-12 54.00% 27.0/50
2 Stockfish 1.7.1 JA +12/=22/-16 46.00% 23.0/50 ...

What would the computerchess world look like without Ippolit ?

And here are the results of the big three, when they fight each other

AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 3200 Mhz,(Fritzmark 23,1) "Three Best" Tournament
TC Blitz 2m2sec, 512 Mb Hash, 100 Nunn2+privatbook positions, 6 cores each, ponder off


Program Score % Av.Op. Elo + - Draws
1 Deep Rybka 4 SSE42 x64 ...

And now the best of the *Ipporevatives*

AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 3200 Mhz,(Fritzmark 23,1)
TC Blitz 2m+2s, 512 Mb Hash, 50 privatbook positions

1 Houdini 1.02 x64 POPCNT 8_CPU +10/=33/-7 53.00% 26.5/50
2 IvanHoe-B 63Mod12c +7/=33/-10 47.00% 23.5/50
first match is for Houdini 1.02
Second match ...

And now the best of the *Ipporevatives*

AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 3200 Mhz,(Fritzmark 23,1)
TC Blitz 2m+2s, 512 Mb Hash, 50 privatbook positions

1 Houdini 1.02 x64 POPCNT 8_CPU +10/=33/-7 53.00% 26.5/50
2 IvanHoe-B 63Mod12c +7/=33/-10 47.00% 23.5/50
first match is for Houdini 1.02

after the first two matches and 100 games against DR4 with results 50,5 - 49,5 for DR4
now a Noomensuite 60 games test:

AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 3200 Mhz,(Fritzmark 23,1)
TC Blitz 2m+2s, 512 Mb Hash, Noomen Testsuite 60 games

1 Houdini 1.02 x64 POPCNT 8_CPU +10/=40/-10 50.00% 30.0/60
2 Deep Rybka ...

second 50 games match ended and this time DR4 won by small margin

AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 3200 Mhz,(Fritzmark 23,1)
TC Blitz 2m+2s, 512 Mb Hash, 50 games Nunn2 positions

1 Deep Rybka 4 SSE42 x64 +10/=34/-6 54.00% 27.0/50
2 Houdini 1.02 x64 POPCNT 8_CPU +6/=34/-10 46.00% 23.0/50

so after 100 ...

an example of a black Houdini 1.02 win

[Event "Bram-PC, Blitz 2m+2s"]
[Site "AMD X6 1090T 3200 Mhz, (Fritz"]
[Date "2010.06.19"]
[Round "31"]
[White "Deep Rybka 4 SSE42 x64"]
[Black "Houdini 1.02 x64 POPCNT 8_CPU"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E90"]
[Annotator "0.38;0.12"]
[PlyCount "132"]
[TimeControl ...