Author: Don Dailey
Date: 03:15:49 07/27/98
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On July 26, 1998 at 23:14:45, blass uri wrote: >I tested the new version of Junior Amir Ban sent me >and I did a nunn match between Junior and fritz5 > >I used pentium200MMX > >Junior5 won the nunn match 12:8 >(I gave the programs 10 minutes per game+10 seconds per move). >I gave every program 12,000Kbytes hash tables(I cannot give exactly 12000 so the >computer made it 11,9..Kbytes > >I think the main reason Junior5 won fitz5 is that Junior was better in tactics. > >before this match I did a nunn match with 10 minutes per game without 10 seconds >per move(both sides used near 10,000Kbytes hash tables). >In this match fritz5 won 12:8 but when I looked at the games I saw that >in 1 of the games Junior lost in time at move 156 in a draw position. >fritz has only king and bishop when Junior had king bishop and a pawn. >This is the reason I decided to give the programs more 10 seconds per move. > >This is a big improvement because Junior4.6 lost to fritz5 14.5:5.5 in 10 >minutes per move and if I added 10 seconds to every move the result was not >better. > >Uri Hi Uri, You should run the match with many more games, 20 games is not nearly enough to claim Junior is better at this time control, it's only an indication of this. Especially with a score of 12 to 8. I have seen results much better than this with even more games turn completely around. If 2 games had been won by Fritz the match would have been tied. I'll bet a lot of games could have gone either way. To see what I mean, flip a coin 20 times and note the scores. Do this a few times and note how often the results are exactly 10 tails and 10 heads, not very often. Most of the time you will see a few extra heads or a few extra tails. The single most likely result will be 10-10 but this will still be a fraction of the time. - Don
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