Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 06:56:43 04/15/01
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On April 15, 2001 at 07:43:31, Steven J. Brann wrote: >On April 14, 2001 at 19:47:05, Jason Williamson wrote: > >>On April 14, 2001 at 19:04:58, Daniel Chancey wrote: >> >>>Are you SURE you got CM8000 ready to go? >>> >>>Castle2000 >> >>If Chessmaster finishes better then -4 to -5 against deep fritz I would >>surprised. Deep Fritz is the strongest engine in my stable (I don't have any >>Tigers or Gandalf's yet ;)) It consistantly wins tournaments. >> >>Chessmaster on the other hand, I would say is something like 3rd to 4th >>strongest, after Deep Fritz, Fritz 6e, Junior 6a. It seems better then Nimzo 8 >>and/or Hiarcs 7.32. >> >>In a match between Deep Fritz and CM8k on my machine, Deep Fritz won 6 straight >>games, to take the lead and win 12.5-8.5. >> > >I don't dispute your results. But perhaps running two programs on one machine >may not be a fair representation. There may be an unfair allocation of machine >resources for one program vs. another. For example, it is my understanding that >earlier versions of Chessmaster hogged far more machine resources than CM8K. I >would suggest that for valid outcomes, running programs head-to-head should be >done on two IDENTICAL machines. > >Regards, Steve > >>I look forward to when I can afford to get ahold of Tiger and Gandalf to test >>those suckers out. >> >>JW That statement would perhaps true if my machine wasn't a dual cpu machine. The only issues is memory management and thread control. Just make sure that Fritz is only using 1 thread, and that memory use of both engines is sufficantly low not to cause swaping.
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