Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Hiarcs8 better at shorter time controls!?

Author: Chessfun

Date: 14:46:00 05/11/02

Go up one level in this thread


On May 11, 2002 at 17:35:28, Ian Aston wrote:

>On May 11, 2002 at 16:31:04, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>On May 11, 2002 at 15:13:04, George Sobala wrote:
>>
>>>Some results of Hiarcs8 v CM8000(CMFun personality) at various time controls,
>>>on an 800MHz Duron, 16Mb hash each, Hiarcs with own book, CMFun with Fritz6's.
>>>
>>>At G/2' blitz:
>>>
>>>Hiarcs8 +67 -38 =35 (60.36%)
>>
>>
>>If you don't mind could you check how many of these were losses by CMFun on
>>time?.
>>
>>
>>>At G/30':
>>>
>>>Hiarcs8 +15 -16 =10 (48.78%)
>>>
>>>At 120'/40+60'/20+30':
>>>
>>>Hiarcs8 +0 -2 =1
>>>
>>>Combining the two slower time controls:
>>>
>>>Hiarcs8 +15 -18 =11
>>>
>>>So contrary to my and others' original impressions, Hiarcs8 seems to perform
>>>better at shorter time controls than longer.
>>>
>>>I also wonder whether it might do better in single-computer engine matches with
>>>no pondering, than standard two-machine auto232 games: is it out-pondered by
>>>other engines?
>>
>>
>>These games you played were on a single PC. Did you have pondering on or off?
>>Chessmaster don't ponder in a chessbase GUI.
>
>
>The King engine will ponder under ChessBase Hiarcs GUI if it is converted to a
>UCI engine with wb2uci converter. It also seems to handle short incremental time
>controls ok, such as 1'+1'', whereas as a winboard engine it seems to lose on
>time. Don't know about G/2' though.


Thanks for that info. I haven't run any CM personality in any of the UCI
interfaces, Fritz 7, Shredder 6 or Hiarcs 8 yet.

What is the wb2uci converter and where can I download it?.

Thanks.

Sarah.



>>
>>Sarah.



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.