Author: David Dory
Date: 15:59:15 02/28/02
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Great idea for a tournament, pav. I don't like the proposed 60 min/game time control, however. That kind of time control seems to be a main ingredient in "stupid chess", because the engines have no effecient way to budget their time, not knowing how many moves will be needed in the game. You could wind up with ludicrous move after ludicrous move by both sides with every game that goes beyond about 60 moves. Until one side gets the endgame file hit. One minute per move, ponder on (using two computers), or two minutes per move ponder off with one computer, would be my suggestion. I wonder how much the validity of your tournament would change if the number of games played was changed from 1,000 to 500? In my opinion, if the openings and defenses are broadly varied, I believe you'd have significantly valid data for comparing the programs after each program had played 100 games against every other program in the tournament. Don't you? Perhaps someone with a more statistical bent could offer some advice on this question (you're on, Dan!) Good luck, and please keep us posted, pavel. Dave
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