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Subject: Re: Is the SSDF taking a break from testing?

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 12:03:13 07/15/05

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On July 15, 2005 at 14:10:48, Uri Blass wrote:

>On July 15, 2005 at 13:59:49, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On July 15, 2005 at 13:36:36, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On July 15, 2005 at 10:35:02, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 15, 2005 at 10:31:33, Steve Glanzfeld wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>SSDF has been replaced by CEGT. They are quicker, include strong freeware, and
>>>>>do not follow the 40/2h dogma.
>>>>>
>>>>>http://www.cegt.de/rangliste/cegtall.html
>>>>
>>>>But they use a GUI which handicaps a lot of engines. Results = worthless.
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>GCP
>>>
>>>Do you know significant differences except the fact that the CEGT does not use
>>>own books and does not use pondering?
>>
>>They use the Fritz GUI with UCI engines. Bad idea if you want reliable results.
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>Fruit is a UCI engine and is number 2 in the test so I do not think that engines
>are handicapped significantly by the Fritz GUI.
>I read in the past about the 1 mbyte problem but the question is if it happens
>often,if it was not fixed and if there are more problems.

Fruit doesn't respond to requests to change the hashtable size afterwards, that
makes it immune to the bug. Perhaps also one of the reasons why it does so well
against ChessBase engines.

--
GCP



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