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Subject: Sudden death ?

Author: Matthias Gemuh

Date: 07:12:52 06/15/05

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On June 15, 2005 at 09:43:27, Marc Lacrosse wrote:

>I am delighted to present you this highly moral -and funny- story :
>
>Program                 Score     %    Av.Op.  Elo    +   -    Draws
>1 Fruit Massy 2005  :  58.5/100  58.5   2620   2680   60  60   25.0 %
>2 TogaII 0.93       :  41.5/100  41.5   2680   2620   60  60   25.0 %
>
>Congratulations to Fabien Letouzey!
>
>Long live original opensource free quality software ...
>
>Marc
>
>
>3/0 blitz
>Centrino2 2Ghz 2048 MB
>Winboard 4.2.7.a + Polyglot 1.3
>128 MB main hash
>ponder off, learning off, no TB
>same neutral book for both





The WORST way to test 2 engines of similar strength is to use "sudden death"
time control ! Compared with early middle game moves, the decisive endgame moves
are rather random moves, leading to random game results.
Only time controls without endgame time trouble make sense in eng-eng matches.

Matthias.

P.S.:  my wild guess is that Fruit Massy is indeed stronger than Fruit-TogaII.












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