Dedicated machine on FICS Server

[scandien]

Hello ,

i have found the data for SapphireII on FICS server.

Finger of SapphireII:

Last disconnected: Fri Sep 11, 23:50 EDT 2009

rating RD win loss draw total best
Blitz 1838 350.0 8742 2516 870 12128 2210 (06-Oct-1998)
Standard 2050 350.0 1976 635 207 2818 2215 (02-Mar-1999)
Lightning 2198 350.0 1112 415 103 1630 2287 (06-Apr-1999)


1: Novag Sapphire II portable chess computer (32 MHz H8).
2: Autoplaying using the Novag Distributor, XBoard 4.4 and a custom
autoplayer.
3: Run by IanO
4: Autoplayer noplays briefly after five games in a row to let others play.
5: Message me if you own a Novag computer with serial port.
6: Still working out bugs in the Mac OS X autoplayer. Thanks for your
patience.

Those Data are interesting to get a good idea of the overall level of this machine versus human. Do you know other handle/account for dedicated machine on FICS ?

Best regards

Nicolas

[scandien]

i found the Novag Sapphire too

Finger of NovagSapphire:

Last disconnected: Thu May 12, 11:42 EDT 2005

rating RD win loss draw total best
Blitz 1981 350.0 32308 5935 1459 39702 2064 (26-Sep-2001)
Standard 2143 350.0 10170 1540 467 12177 2223 (16-Jan-2002)
Wild 1908 350.0 13 28 0 41 1963 (10-Jun-2001)


1: Novag Sapphire I with a home-brew interface.
2: Interface written with perl/Expect by Kayvan Sylvan (kayvan@sylvan.com)
3: -
4: Don't exploit my bugs, report them to my owner (kayvan on FICS).
5: Crafty clones, I will always lose to you, so go elsewhere!
6: -
7: I have been forced to have noescape=1 in my formula. Too many losers who
disconnect rather than take the loss.


br

Nicolas

[scandien]

and now the Novag Emerald

Finger of NovagEmerald:

Last disconnected: Wed Apr 5, 14:05 EDT 2006

rating RD win loss draw total best
Blitz 1716 350.0 140 33 6 179 1790 (04-Feb-2005)
Standard 2225 350.0 94 17 5 116 2010 (04-Feb-2005)


1: Emerald Classic plus(C)
2: Table-top chess computer made by Novag in 1997
3: H8 processor: 8-bit CPU at 26 MHz, 32 Kbyte ROM and 1 Kbyte RAM
4: Chess program by Dave Kittinger, USA
5: 1940 Wiki-ELO
6: This computer is manually attended and its operator is Klingsor of FICS
7: Regular and rated games against human players with following time
controls: 10/0, 15/0, 20/0 and 30/0
8: To see a photo of this machine, visit
www.xs4all.nl/~tluif/chescom/NovEm.html

strangely all machine seems to be less effective versus weaker opponent. I was thinking the opposite ...

br

Nicolas

[Larry]

Sap1 out rates Sap2 by 140 points at blitz....
L

[scandien]

for the Blitz the main pool of opponent were rated :
between 1500 and 1900 for SapphireII (10% opponent below 1500, 90% rated over 1500)
between 1400 and 1800 for Sapphire (40% oppponent Below 1500, 60% opponents rated over 1500).

Maybe this can be the cause of the rating difference ?


br

Nicolas

[Larry]

for the Blitz the main pool of opponent were rated :
between 1500 and 1900 for SapphireII (10% opponent below 1500, 90% rated over 1500)
between 1400 and 1800 for Sapphire (40% oppponent Below 1500, 60% opponents rated over 1500).

Maybe this can be the cause of the rating difference ?


br

Nicolas

Yes, that could be a factor. Programs don't blunder in time pressure
like us mortals, just search a bit shallower.
L

[dedicate computers]

is possible to find this interface for Sapphire? Can you help me?

[IanO]

is possible to find this interface for Sapphire? Can you help me?

Sure! It is pretty long in the tooth by now, originally written for Win32 RS-232 and an early WinBoard protocol version. You would also need the data cable from the Novag Distributor and a serial-USB adaptor. One of these days I want to translate it from Win32 C to cross-platform Python or something, since I don't even use Windows any more.

(Oh, there is no way to post attachments? Darn, my web host is down right now so I'll have to give a link later. I also gave the source to Steven Edwards, because he wanted to make an interface to his Citrine, which shares the same protocol. Maybe a search on the web for "AutoNovag" might turn up a forgotten archive...)

In the meantime, let me attach a few of the thousands of games SapphireII played on FICS.

[Event "ICS rated blitz match"]
[Site "fics.onenet.net"]
[Date "1998.10.21"]
[Round "?"]
[White "SapphireII"]
[Black "demish"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "2017"]
[ECO "B76"]
[TimeControl "180+2"]
[WhiteElo "2175"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 O-O 8.Qd2 Nc6 9.O-O-O Nxd4 10.Bxd4 Be6 11.Kb1 Qa5 12.Nd5 Qxd2 13.Nxe7+ Kh8 14.Rxd2 Rfe8 15.Nd5 Bxd5 16.Bxf6 Bxa2+ 17.Kxa2 Bxf6 18.Rxd6 Kg7 19.Rd7 Re7 20.Rxe7 Bxe7 21.Bd3 Rd8 22.e5 b6 23.Kb3 f6 24.e6 f5 25.Re1 Kf6 26.Bf1 Rd2 27.Kc3 Rd6 28.Bc4 a5 29.f4 h6 30.g3 Rd8 31.Re3 Bb4+ 32.Kb3 Rd2 33.e7 Bxe7 34.Re6+ Kf7 35.Rd6+ { demish resigns } 1-0


[Event "ICS rated lightning match"]
[Site "fics.onenet.net"]
[Date "1999.01.17"]
[Round "?"]
[White "SapphireII"]
[Black "inYourRoom"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "2075"]
[ECO "A53"]
[TimeControl "120+1"]
[WhiteElo "2228"]

1.d4 d6 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nc3 c6 4.e4 Nbd7 5.f4 e5 6.Nf3 exd4 7.Qxd4 Qa5 8.Bd2 Qc5 9.Be3 Qxd4 10.Bxd4 Be7 11.e5 dxe5 12.fxe5 Ng4 13.O-O-O O-O 14.h3 Nh6 15.Bd3 Nc5 16.Bb1 Nf5 17.Bf2 h6 18.g4 Nh4 19.Bxh4 g5 20.Bf2 Be6 21.Bxc5 Bxc5 22.b3 Be3+ 23.Kb2 b5 24.Rhe1 Bf4 25.cxb5 cxb5 26.Nxb5 Rfc8 27.Nfd4 a6 28.Nd6 Rc5 29.Be4 Rf8 30.b4 Rxe5 31.Nc6 Bxg4 32.hxg4 Re6 33.Nxf7 Kxf7 34.Bd5 Re8 35.Nd8+ Rxd8 36.Bxe6+ { inYourRoom resigns } 1-0

[Ted Summers]

Nice!