Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 06:47:46 04/13/00
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On April 13, 2000 at 09:25:49, Jorge Pichard wrote: >I have seen different Websites and almost all have LG2000 2.5 rated second after >Crafty Fallowed by AnMon 5.6 as the third rated Winboard program. I agreed so >far with those rating, but last week I started to test the newer version of >Gromit 3.0 Versus Lg2000 2.5 and against AnMon 5.06. Either the testers were >using a different processors than I was prodicing different result, or the >setting and opening book were different, I used an AMD K6 II 500 Mhz and the >result for Gromit 3.0 were much higher than either Lg2000 2.5 and AnMon 5.06. >The time for the first test was set to game in 15 minutes per side using >Winboard version 4.07 and the same computer with 128 Mb of RAM. Gromit Score >28.5 games out of 50 against Lg2000 2.5 and 31 to 19 against AnMon 5.06. Now I >was very upset simply because my favorite program Lg2000 2.5 lost to Gromit 3.0, >but when I tested against Anmont 5.06, I finally realized that Gromit was way >underated. Then I tested then once more increasing the time control to game >in 30 minutes per side, and again Gromit 30 score this time the test was shorter >only 30 games and Gromit score 16.5 out of 30 games against Lg2000 2.5 and >against AnMon 5.06 Gromit Score 18 to 12. Now what is wrong with this picture? >Gromit 3.0 clearly beat the crap out of the two leading programs in the Winboard >rating list. Why does Gromit has such a low rating on all Winboard Rating List? I agree that Gromit 3.0 is underrated, but it might be due to the lack of games. It's fairly new and I believe its rating will increase as time goes by. Furthermore you shouldn't put too much emphasis on the ratings. It's fairly certain that Crafty is the strongest WinBoard engine, but there's a lot of engines crowding the places behind Crafty. SOS, Comet (B20 looks strong), LG2000 and maybe Gromit 3.0. In my experience AnMon belongs to this category at faster games, e.g. below a minute per move. I haven't tested Gromit 3.0 at longer timecontrols to check if the improvement is limited to rapid games. That would be an obvious thing to do. My strength list would be something like this: 1. Crafty 2. LG2000 3. SOS 4. Comet, AnMon 5. Gromit, Phalanx, TCB and Amy. Best wishes... Mogens
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