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Subject: Re: Ferret vs Gerbil

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 17:02:24 03/25/02

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On March 25, 2002 at 19:49:40, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On March 25, 2002 at 12:50:57, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>Gerbil is clearly more complicated than tscp and gerbil
>>is also clearly better than tscp.
>>Gerbil is using hash tables and ponder when tscp does not.
>
>Searching faster/deeper via hash tables and pondering does not necessarily make
>it better. Last I checked, Gerbil relied entirely on piece/square tables. It
>wouldn't surprise me if TSCP does enough evaluation to beat piece/square table
>programs (unless it's getting ridiculously outsearched).

From A. Herrmann's list (http://www.wbholmes.de/elo/eloceleron.txt):
place engine       rating   games   +    =    -     pts     %  oppo  diff
=========================================================================
...
 62. Gerbil R02    2141     496   167   57  272   195.5  39.4  2218   -77
...
 74. Tscp 1.73 *   2034     276    68   19  189    77.5  28.1  2199  -165
...

TSCP is fairly close to Gerbil.  Gerbil is a very fast searcher, so TSCP's close
performance is rather surprising, I think.




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