Author: Jorge
Date: 15:42:19 12/15/03
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On December 14, 2003 at 18:53:08, Christophe Theron wrote: >On December 14, 2003 at 15:49:38, Richard Sutherland wrote: > >>On December 14, 2003 at 15:39:47, Rajen Gupta wrote: >> >>>On December 14, 2003 at 13:26:33, Richard Sutherland wrote: >>> >>>>Well, I know you all probably know this already, but although Shredder is the >>>>World Champion I am a little surprised at the ease with which it is crushing >>>>Chess Tiger 15 in my mini-match right now. I am playing an auto232 match between >>>>two identical PC's (Intel 2.54Gb) an game in one-hour and Shredder is leading >>>>5-0 with two draws at this time. I am not surprised, 7 games is hardly something you can rely on or make any conclusions. jorge >>>> >>>>Wonder if there is some tweaking I need to do? >>> >>>although it is along time ago, i think i remember christophe theron saying that >>>due to some kind of bug, chesstiger 15 plays better when moves/min is selected >>>rather than game in/min: >>> >>>the other easo could just be >>> >>>a) a statistical anomaly: >>> >>>b) the effect of he shredder book which is optimised for shredder whereas the >>>tiger book(chessbase)is only a general opening book made form a collection of >>>high quality games: >>> >>>i have found chesstiger 15 to be on par with shreder7 >> >> >> >>I've changed the Tiger settings to Suicidal and to use the Shredder book. The >>funny thing is, when you select 128MB of hash, Tiger only loads 96? That's >>consistent on both PC's. > > > >1) I don't recommend the "Gambit suicidal" settings. Use the normal style or the >Gambit style for better results. Please note that if you are using CT15 inside >the ChessBase GUI, due to a bug in the CB stuff you will have to manually edit >the CT.INI file. > >2) Chess Tiger hash table must always be 12 times some power of two, so when you >select 128Mb (which is not 12 times some power of two), Chess Tiger >automatically uses the biggest amount that does not exceed what you asked for. >In this case it selects 96Mb. > >3) If you draw any conclusion after 5-0, my advice is that you should definitely >pick a different hobby. But I'm sure you know that already and that you are not >drawing any real conclusion so early, right? :) > >Good luck with your match. Please keep us informed. > > > > Christophe, author of Chess Tiger
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