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Subject: Re: comment about tournament results posted here

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 08:50:37 05/27/03

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On May 27, 2003 at 10:48:15, K. Burcham wrote:

>
>
>When Sarah posts her tournament games here with long time control, these are
>long games with 60+ moves, (usually longer) when one side loses.
>Also when Tony posts SSDF games these are long games with many moves.
>
>When some others post long time control games, they have short games to one side
>losing with fewer moves then Sarah and Tony.
>
>Has to be reasons for this.
>Usually when a tournament result is posted, I will scan results looking for
>short games and try to see why a top program lost in few moves.
>
>kburcham

My best guess is that when Sarah and Tony run their tournaments, they know how
to configure each engine to use the appropriate book, hash size, and other
settings to get optimal play from each engine. Others might not pay attention to
*all* of those details, and you only have to forget *one* of those details to
get a one-sided result.

I have made these kinds of mistakes plenty. I usually forget to download the
book for winboard/uci engines, or forget to set the hash size, or something like
that.



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