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Subject: Re: ProDeo and the *.eng file

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 03:26:03 10/21/04

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On October 21, 2004 at 03:31:11, ThatsIt wrote:

>Hi,
>
>at the moment i test some pd settings with 3 different opening positions
>(C68, D27 and D41).
>Not one of mine or other (albert, thorsten...) settings could score better
>than 1 out of 6 against Shredder8, Fritz8, Junior8 or Hiarcs9 until now.
>(time controll 40moves/20min + 40moves/20min + ...)
>
>Yesterday i had an idea of changing a parameter.
>
>Normally i do this in the following manner:
>I create a new textfile and copy the rebel default settings (09, 2004)
>into this textfile.
>I make my changes and then i save the file and rename it in "rebel.eng" and
>than i copy this rebel.eng into the personal folder.
>
>Yesterday i've forgotten to rename and the new file was called rebel.txt
>of course.

But maybe there was still a REBEL.ENG present after all?


>Because of this, ProDeo was playing the 6 games without any "rebel.eng"
>in the personal folder, only the rebel.txt were in there.
>
>In this case the param.txt look like this:
>***************************************
>Executable made on 01-08-2004
>Personality Path        personal/REBEL.ENG  (52)
>Personality description
>Initial Hash Table Size  60 Mb
>Current Hash Table Size  60 Mb
>Move no.     : 25
>Minimum Time : 00:00:18
>Average Time : 00:00:37 (30)
>Maximum Time : 00:01:01
>Spare time   : 00:01:01
>Time  till next Time Control : 00:08:32
>Time Control phase           : 1
>***************************************
>
>The little match against Shredder 8 ends with a 3.5-2.5 for ProDeo!!
>I've made the same against Hiarcs 9, the result was 3.0-3.0!
>
>Questions (to Ed):
>What kind of PD was playing?
>Could it be an older Rebel 12 style when playing without a correct named *.eng
>file?

I don't know the answer, I have to look it up.

Ed



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