Author: Mark Young
Date: 19:29:15 04/27/00
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On April 27, 2000 at 11:48:24, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On April 27, 2000 at 02:16:48, Chessfun wrote: > >> >>All games on one Cel 433. >>Ponder=off. >>Tablebases used at 25 and longer. >>Nunn 1 positions. >>No opening books are loaded. >> >> 1 min game Fritz 6a 14.5 - 5.5 Crafty 17-10 >> 2 min game Fritz 6a 14.5 - 5.5 Crafty 17-10 >> 3 min game Fritz 6a 13.0 - 7.0 Crafty 17-10 >> 5 min game Fritz 6a 15.5 - 4.5 Crafty 17-10 >>10 min game Fritz 6a 13.0 - 7.0 Crafty 17-10 >>25 min game Fritz 6a 13.0 - 7.0 Crafty 17-10 >>60 min game Fritz 6a 15.5 - 4.5 Crafty 17-10 >>Tourney times Fritz 6a 14.5 - 5.5 Crafty 17-10 >> >>Once I figure out how to autoplay from the Nunn 1 opening >>positions I will play all games with ponder=on. >> >>Thanks. > >I find what you are doing very interesting, not so much concerning the relative >strength of Fritz and Crafty, which a series of matches between them can't >determine anyway, but regarding testing procedures. > >I ran 2 similar matches myself between Crafty 17.10 and Fritz 6a in the GUI of >Fritz 6a, with the General book of F6 (Alex Kure), tablebases on (2.6 GB of the >Turbo CDs) and 4MB hash for each engine. The first match was played on 2 P600E, >Game/1 minute, ponder on. The second, on a single P600E, ponder on and game/2 >minutes, since each program is using 50% of the CPU. > >In the first match, Fritz 6a won 15-5, which is consistent with your 14.5-5.5 >and seems to indicate that ponder off doesn't hurt Crafty more than Fritz. > >In the second match, Fritz 6a won also 15-5, which is consistent too, even on >one machine and ponder on. > >Enrique It has been clear for some time that Crafty is not hurt more then other programs when playing with ponder off. I know Bob is a expert, but data has never shown him to be correct in this matter, and I will always take data over opinion.
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