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Subject: Re: Correction !

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 05:57:24 04/20/01

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On April 20, 2001 at 08:30:16, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On April 20, 2001 at 05:03:40, Fabio Barrettone wrote:
>
>>Well, at last I think so from my experiments with an Athlon 950 256Mb of RAM.
>>I've done 400 games against Yace (at 40/10m, sorry not too much time for longer
>>time controls) with default settings and the result was 59% vs 41% in favor of
>>Gambit II (I don't know about Chess Tiger 14.0 yet), using ERT (24Mb of hash for
>>both the engines, and a book prepared by me for Yace).
>>
>>I've redone the same match (overwriting learning of Yace and Gambit) with
>>SelSafety=12 (too much seems to be at the contrary overproductive) and the
>>result has been 82% vs 28% in favor of Gambit. Now, I don't think 400 games and
>>a so large difference is a casuality.
>>
>>I've also done the complete Nunn test against Fritz6b (sorry, don't have Deep
>>Fritz) and also in the Sveshnikov, where GT seems to have big problems against
>>Fritz, with SelSafety=12 it was able to win with white and draw with black,
>>where with the default settings it lost with both white and black.
>>
>>Well, I've not had the time to test further this theory, but maybe, Christophe,
>>with your home-made benchmarks, you could tell if my theory is wrong or not.
>>Just my little 2$ on a thing I've noticed (for a casuality).
>>
>>Now I'm actually testing with Junior and Hiarcs, next with Chessmaster (Kurt and
>>default settings).
>>
>>In the end a question: in the Chessbase version there's a ct.ini? I hope so,
>>since I have only a computer and it's a real pain to enter the moves manually
>>for engine vs engine matches.
>>
>>Sincerely,
>>Fabio.
>
>Fabio, you are correct with your theory I just finished testing 100 games
>against Deep Fritz at 40\10min and your settings is solid, but it only won by a
>very small margin.
>
PS: I meant to write 10 games instead of 100 games.

>Pichard.



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