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Subject: Re: Reproducibility of Nunn matches is not so good

Author: Jouni Uski

Date: 00:36:31 05/02/00

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On May 02, 2000 at 03:22:36, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>On May 02, 2000 at 01:10:58, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>About one week ago I posted "sensational" blitz Nunn test result Crafty17.10 -
>>Fritz6a 12-8. And I wasn't lying! Now I have more time to re-check and second
>>match ended 9 - 11 for Fritz. I also repeated two other matches with interesting
>>results:
>>                           1.              2.
>>Crafty 17.10 - Lg2000   13 - 7         9,5 - 10,5
>>Fritz6a - Lg2000        13,5 - 6,5     11 - 9
>>
>>Exact enviroment: AMD 450Mhz, ponder of, 16+16MB hash, 4m+1s level, 3+4+some
>>5 piece TBs, Fritz6 interface, early resign.
>>
>>Conclusion: after 20 games You don't know much yet...
>>
>>Jouni
>
>With learn off, the games should be exactly reproducable (IMHO). Why should the
>search algo of either prog under the same pre-conditions produce another best
>move for any of the positions some time later?
>If you are right, then IMO either (or both) progs are kind of buggy, accessing
>some non-initialized data or similar ?
>Or does any body have anothe explanation ?
>
>Uli

I have tested this before and there seems to be always randomness. I think in
blitz some ms timing difference can change game totally. And may be first
engine is getting more from CPU than second engine?!?!

Jouni






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