Author: pavel
Date: 10:00:23 11/01/00
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On November 01, 2000 at 12:36:43, Uri Blass wrote: >On November 01, 2000 at 11:26:47, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>>I think on a AMD K6-2 450 MHz is the rating from the SSDF OK, but with the next >>>games is the rating higher, I am sure. The AMD processor is not the best >>>processor for Gandalf 4.32f ! >>> >>>Best >>>Frank >> >>Not only that, but in my testing, Gandalf 4.32e is much stronger than Gandalf >>4.32f. >> >>In 5 min games. Total games 85: >> >>Gandalf 4.32e: +56 =12 -17 >>Gandalf 4.32f: =17 =12 -56 >> >>In 15 min games. Total games 75: >> >>Gandalf 4.32e: +47 =13 -15 >>Gandalf 4.32f: +15 =13 -47 >> >>In 40 min games. Total games 50: >> >>Gandalf 4.32e: +26 =15 -9 >>Gandalf 4.32f: +9 =15 -26 >> >>In 40/40 games. Total games 60: >> >>Gandalf 4.32e: +43 =8 -9 >>Gandalf 4.32f: +9 =8 -43 >> >>Each series was started with a new book. Both programs on a PIII 500, 256 megs >>ram. 56 meg hash tables for both. Here is the performance of white/black via >>elo_stat: >> >>White Perf. : 49.4 % >>Black Perf. : 50.6 % >> >>Gandalf 4.32e was the strongest version, and should have been the commercially >>released version. Here is a set of games in the Fritz interface: >> >>These were 40/40 games: Total 150. >> >>Gandalf 4.32e: +87 =23 -40 >>Fritz 6a: +40 =23 -87 >> >>These were 40/40 games. Total games 150. >> >>Gandalf 4.32f: +53 =47 -50 >>Fritz 6a: +50 =47 -53 >> >>You can see the "e" version destroyed Fritz 6a, and actually was the strongest >>version over ICS play as well. My question is why wasn't it the commercial >>version? > >Your results suggest that 4.32e is more than 100 elo better than 4.32f at all >time controls and even more than 200 elo better than 4.32e at 40/40. > >They suggest that 4.32f is 125 elo better than Fritz6a. > >If you are right then the only reason that I can find not to sell 4.32e is if >the programmer want to use it to win a correspondence championship but the first >thing to suspect is that something is wrong with your results(maybe Fritz has a >bug that tells it to play weaker only in eng-eng matches against Gandalf4.32e >and maybe the machine that you used for 4.32f had problems and 4.32f was slowed >by a significant factor) > >Uri unless the results (or similar results) are confirmed by several others, who have messed with 4.32e too, I wuold'nt even drop my pants ;) Pavel
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