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Subject: Re: Young Talents engines for CB as opposed to winboard + adapter?

Author: Frank Schneider

Date: 22:27:23 06/03/00

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On June 03, 2000 at 13:41:02, John Hartmann wrote:

>Can anyone outline the difference in strength, etc., between
>using a Winboard engine plus the Chessbase adapter as opposed
>to the "native" variants offered in the Young Talents cd?
>
>Is there a real/substantial difference?
>
>In other words -- is it really worth buying?!

For gromit: yes.
The technical reason is, that the winboard-adapter uses the winboard-protocol
in a way Gromit (and most other winboard-engines) don't expect: the whole game
is sent before a search starts, which is fine if the engine knows it.
However, most winboard-engines usually don't clear their hashtables during a
game, but only when a game begins and are fooled to clear hashtables before
every single move when using the winboard-adapter.

Another advantage is that the native engines display more information
(nodes/second, tablebaseaccesses).

Bye,
Frank


>
>John Hartmann



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