Author: Ross Boyd
Date: 00:20:36 01/02/06
I tested TRACE against Gerbil 2 to compare with Uri's results posted earlier. Surprisingly TRACE eclipsed Movei's performance... but what TRACE lacks in intelligent search/eval she compensates for with exceptional luck. ;-) Hardware was P3-600Mhz... no pondering. All 3,4 and 5 man EGTBs. Time control was 40 moves in 1 minute (repeating). The final result was 24-4-12 (W-L-Draw) I also tried bullet 1 + 1 and the result was almost identical (24-3-13) And earlier I played an endgame bullet match against Rybka beta release and Rybka (of course) won handily with 23.5-16.5... Rybka's eval was clearly superior. Despite the author's claim that it has "no endgame knowledge" it does have a very fine understanding of the strength of passed pawns - and it knows how to coordinate all its pieces effectively to get the pawn home safely. I am really impressed. In position 4 it understood that exchanging Qs was good for black with its pawn majority on the king side. I must fix TRACE so that she avoids swapping pieces when defending this type of position. In conclusion, Sune Larsson's endgame suite is a very useful addition for engine testing. Thanks Sune! Ross
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