Author: ujecrh
Date: 10:40:39 06/07/00
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On June 07, 2000 at 09:51:34, Eric Trudel wrote: >GoodDay, >I think there was some talk about if those chessbase adapter's make engines >weaker. >I played 55 games each 10min long, with crafty 17.10 from chessbases site, and >crafty 17.10 from the FTP site. I don't want to make any conclusions cause I'll >probaly get jumped on :) Here they are +21 =32 -2 in favor of the native >chessbase engine which of course uses NO adapter. So again it was 37.0-18.0 in >favor of no adapter. Now I know they're aren't enough games and all games were >only played on a Intel Pentium 3, 500mhz. And yes the games were only 10min >long. But still 37.0-18.0 is a very wide gap... I think... >Bye-Bye. There is no surprise for me in this result (even if the difference may well be reduced a bit with more games played). This issue has been raised several times. What happens is the winboard adapter sends a 'new' command after each move it plays (followed by a 'force' and the replay of all moves so far). I guess that, at least, most programs lose all benefit of pondering and restart their search from scratch on the position. Ujecrh
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