Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 04:08:59 02/19/02
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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. I just want to put in a few line about this ponder issue and strength. All engines that are listed are quite strong engines for the normal user and thereby are used mainly as analyse engines when configured at max strength. A ponder off tournament would say just as much if not more about the engines strength to analyse. Another thing that could hide the engines analyse strength is the use of learning in match play between computers. It could be fun to see some result from matches where each engine has two entries, one with and one without learning. Or maybe repeat some SSDF matches where the learning of the engine in question was turned off to get an estimate how much of the rating comes from the GUI. Maybe it is tree people that should be listed as author: GUI-author/Engine-author/EGTB-author. How would the book learning affect the opening choice when the program is mainly used for human-computer games? Wouldn’t it be rather boring to play it after some games when the program starts playing the same opening over and over again? I would add that I sometimes use The King and Chess Tiger to analyse intricate opening problems. The King (and also Gambit Tiger) is very nice to use to find complication in positions. And Chess Tiger is the man to display if this complication could only be used when you must win the game. In short time I will also receive Shredder 6 to help CT in those position and maybe also help when the position is of a positional nature. Odd Gunnar
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