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Subject: Re: SmarThink question

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 11:49:15 06/05/03

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On June 05, 2003 at 14:39:13, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On June 05, 2003 at 14:16:11, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>Are you using the weaker Winboard version with 313 KB Modified:Saturday, April
>>05, 2003, 12:32:48 AM, Under Arena or Winboard ?
>>
>>or the stronger Chessbase version with an adapter with 36KB Modified:Thursday,
>>May 24, 2001, 5:58:18 PM, under Chessbase GUI as an engine?
>>
>>And if you are using the chessbase engine version, what are your result in long
>>time control?
>
>I am using whatever the latest version was from the SmarThink homepage under
>Arena (downloaded it yesterday). I've only played two long games at 40 moves in
>2 hours. So far it's Ruffian 1.5 - SmarThink 0.5.

The latest version under Arena or winboard is about 100 rating point weaker than
Ruffian 1.0.1 specially if you are using its own book. I already have tested
them in a small match of 20 games and Ruffian won by 13.5 to 6.5 and against
Pepito 1.59 is lost 12 to 8 under Arena.

Pichard.

>SmarThink is an interesting engine. During one game it thought about its move
>for 47 minutes and 50 seconds! I don't know if the reason was that it was
>failing low big time, or if it just had a lot of time left (it played 20 book
>moves, so it had 2 hours to make 20 moves).



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