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Subject: Re: Gandalf 5

Author: Tomas Casanovas Martinez

Date: 05:24:39 01/02/02

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On January 01, 2002 at 11:16:24, Lex Loep wrote:

>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 ?

No, I have checked there are no 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
>
I have also downloaded the new ERT version, and the problem subsists. I have
observed that the deepth of Tiger's moves is much lower than in the standard
Tiger GUI, operating at the same level. I will check carefully the Tiger's
configuration, since I am very interested in taking full advantage from this
useful tool that is ERT.

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



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