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Subject: Re: New Engine Power in my CCE tourney, 5 new programs ...

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 10:43:41 12/18/00

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On December 17, 2000 at 14:24:13, Frank Quisinsky wrote:

I don't know how Frans implemented his parallellism,
but it doesn't sound like a good idea to run it parallel with
another engine playing against it, unless the
other program runs on a different computer.

With 2 processors running 3 program threads/processes means
that one process in turn will not get system time and will
get blocked. In about 50% of the total time that will be one
of the parallel engines. If a parallel engine gets blocked
very likely real soon locks inside the engine will prevent
the other process from getting further too.

Running a processor dual means you definitely NEED 2 free cpu's
(free of work load) otherwise the parallellism works against you.

If you run diep dual on a single cpu for example then the first 30
seconds it will search like a couple of hundreds of nodes.

Only when the locks are near the root and the search depth is huge,
then the problem gets a lot smaller as both can search without
locking each other too much.

>Hi,
>in the next 3 months I play with 5 new engines in my CCE tourney
>(biggest computer chess tourney).
>
>01. Tourney "B": WB LambChop 10.x (very strong, I think 2.425 - 2.525 ELO).
>02. Tourney "B": WB Insomniac 0.69a (older version with 2.450 - 2.475 ELO).
>03. Tourney "A": CB The Crazy Bishop (I believe 2.375 - 2.425 ELO).
>04. Tourney "A": CB Nimzo 8 (I believe 20 - 40 ELO stronger as Nimzo 7-32).
>05. Tourney "A": CB DeepFritz (I believe 20 - 40 ELO stronger as Fritz 6a).
>
>We will see ...
>New results daily !
>
>Dual Pentium III 733 MHz, Ponder = on, 64 MB Hash-Tables, 40 moves in 40
>minutes, 4-piece nalimov TBs with 4 MB cache !
>
>More information on my webpage !
>http://amateurschach.in-trier.de
>
>Have a nice day !
>
>Best
>Frank



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