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Subject: Re: Chess Tiger 14 is 100 points WEAKER than TheKing ??

Author: Bertil Eklund

Date: 13:57:04 02/18/02

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On February 18, 2002 at 14:42:17, Albert Silver wrote:

>On February 18, 2002 at 14:25:05, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>Chess Tiger 14 is 100 points WEAKER than TheKing ??
>
>Keep in mind a few things:
>
>- The engines are playing with ponder OFF, which although ideal for a single
>machine, can seriously affect the overall result.
>- The performance is for this event only and with varying time controls, so it
>can easily be the reverse in a next event.
>- The programs are only using 4 piece TBs. Christophe has already said that he
>thought Tiger's performance (he was commenting the SSDF when saying this) could
>be affected by the use of incomplete TBs.
>- The tournament's biggest purpose (unplanned) IMHO has been to show the
>strength of new settings for CM8000 showing it to be an engine of the highest
>quality suffering from less than optimal default settings.
>
>Still, I must admit to finding it fascinating.
>
>                                        Albert

Hi!

Another thing that affects the results is the small hash-tables, 64mb and 48mb
for Tiger. The faster programs fills up 64mb in less then a minute, when the
"slow" Chessmaster takes much longer to fill up 64mb.

This is no criticism but I believe it could affect the results in favor of
Chessmaster and Hiarcs (slow-searcher).

Bertil



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