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Subject: Re: Gandalf 5

Author: Lex Loep

Date: 08:16:24 01/01/02

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On January 01, 2002 at 09:34:28, Tomas Casanovas Martinez wrote:

>On December 31, 2001 at 15:28:02, Lex Loep wrote:
>
>>On December 31, 2001 at 14:32:33, Tomas Casanovas Martinez wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>A minor operating problem: The ert tool doesn't allow the other engines to work
>>>at their normal performance: The results against Chess T. 14 are 19 - 1 for
>>>Gandalf 5, with Tiger working very bad. Any comments, please?.
>>>
>>That is very strange, where you using the Gandalf native or winboard
>>engine ?
>>Perhaps your hashtable sizes where to big ?
>>
>>During testing I have played thousands of games with ERT, gandalf and
>>Tiger where the results where usually in favor of tiger (not by a big
>>margin) so I can only assume there is some configuration issue.
>>
>>Lex
>
>Although I have been testing chess programmes for about ten years, this is the
>first time I use ERT. The enigine I use is Gandalf 5 native. I will try the
>winboard one. Hash tables are at 64 whilst my computer have 256 available.
>

64 MB hash for each should be ok.

>I don't know if the cause of my problem can be that I use a dual Pentium 3
>computer 2x933...
>

I have developed the program on a dual PIII system, so that should not be
the problem.

One thing I remember from my own tests, the tiger engines sometimes
behave bad on time. Where these losses on time ?
You can ignore loss on time by Unchecking the "Autoflag games" option.

Lex

PS. You need to download the updated ERT as your version is probably
expired. download from: http://www.lokasoft.nl/uk/downloads.htm




>Anyway, thanks for your comments, Lex!.
>
>Tom.
>>>Regards and a wonderful 2002 for all CCC members.
>>>
>>>Tom



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