Author: Scott Woods
Date: 10:23:26 04/12/01
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On April 12, 2001 at 04:20:07, stuart taylor wrote: >On April 11, 2001 at 08:49:21, Scott Woods wrote: > >>Stuart, >> >>Very simple really. >> >>There have been a lot of posts on this site saying that CM8K is weak. >> -"A larger opening book is the problem" >> -"Weak in the endgame- needs table bases" >> >>There have been questions over which patch has been tested etc etc. >> >>Then there are posts of how well "The King" does when "Johan de Koenig" operates >>the machine. >> >>A bit confusing all round. >> >>The proof of the pudding as they say..... >>So I am volunteering myself to play 100 games of CM8K v1.02 against Fritz 6e. >>because they are the 2 chess programs I currently own and I have to start >>somewhere. >> >>My budget doesn't run to identical hardware so I have given Fritz the better >>machine. It has the benefit 64Mg more memory, twice the amount of hash tables - >>a faster processor and tablebases. >> >> - if the games look a bit one sided in favour of the faster hardware - I'll >>swap the hardware at game 50. >> >>When we get to 100 games - we should have a fair idea of how well CM8K plays >>against Fritz 6e. >> >>I will publish on this site every 10 games the results, settings, hardware specs >>etc etc >> >>Then I'll go out and buy "Deep Something or other" and/or some of the other >>engines that are well respected on this site and repeat the exercise. >> >>Will this prove which is the strongest chess engine in the market? >> - Of course it won't. >> >>What it will illustrate is how well CM8K plays against those other engines, >> >> >> >>As for playing CM6K against CM8K - I will leave that for someone else as CM6K >>does not allow winboard232.exe autoplay > > >This certainly sounds very worthwhile. But only if the nature of Fritz 6e is >known, and/or other programs will/have also be(en) compared to it. >(nb when I said earlier about 6e being weaker than 6a, I meaned 6b is weaker, >not 6e. 6e maybe too, but I don't know). > "Will it prove which is the strongest chess engine in the market?" Of course, >after a few tests with CM8K it will strongly indicate where CM8K stands, even if >does not play all of them. >S.Taylor Hi Stuart, Really bizarre 24 hours this. SSDF has found that many of the CM8K games are invalid because of the "Thinking lines switches" and are re-doing the affected CM8K games. Hat's off to the guys for doing this - because it's a fair bit of their time to Also I think the SSDF posting the games will have a lot more clout ( and respectability ) than "little old me" but I will continue with them in the meantime. On a by note, One thing I find fascinating is how the different engines are scheming and plotting - ( and the difference in the points analysis too ) Now if I can only get the Missus to agree that I need Deep Fritz/ Deep Junior/ Shredder and Gambit Tiger.....etc... ;-p Scott
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