Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:04:36 06/15/02
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On June 15, 2002 at 05:18:14, Peter Berger wrote:
>The games were played with 30 minutes sudden death (blitz) time control; match
>was scheduled for 12 games.
>
>Genius used 3 MB for hashtables. The Palm Vx has been overclocked with
>AfterBurner - Tiger displays Speed index of 1.10 for this device.
>
>The hardware advantage for Genius in this match should have been somewhere
>around factor 4-6.
>
>An interesting follow-up IMHO to earlier matches against strong amateur programs
>(Yace,Comet) with same hardware difference that had much closer results and
>seemed to make sense.
>Also previous longer matches against some of the weaker WinBoard engines on
>Athlon1333 showed consistent results in the 2100-2200 rating region.
>
>In the match against Genius 4 Chess Tiger was without any chances though .
>
>Looking at the games themselve gave a similar impression. Even when Tiger
>managed to reach good positions sometimes it was always Genius who had the
>better answers, especially when it is about tactics, but its play also looked
>much sounder.
>In fact most of the time Tiger even displayed higher depths but the Genius
>search seemed to be much more efficient.
>
>SSDF lists Genius 4 with
>
>85 Genius 4.0 DOS 486/50-66 MHz 2265 23 -23 900 49% 2270
>
>Taking into account past callibrations of the rating level this is definitely
>very strong. But I would have expected Chess Tiger on the Palm to score better
>if it wants to reach 2100 SSDF level.
>I think Genius is clearly underrated on this hardware btw.
>
>Is Genius the very strongest program on the 486? Well possible.
>
>Or is it Tiger itself?!
>
>62 Chess Tiger 11.8 Pentium 90 MHz 2382 43 -43 261 50% 2383
>69 Genius 5.0 DOS Pentium 90 MHz 2329 18 -18 1558 47% 2348
>
>In fact I assume that Genius profitted much less from the 486 to Pentium change,
>but that is guesswork.
>
>For callibration of the match results it would be really cool to test Chess
>Tiger itself on the 486 against its Palm brother, but unfortunately that's not
>possible :(
>
>Regards,
>Peter
That's a terrible result.
I did not expect such a spanking.
Have you used the default settings for Chess Tiger?
Christophe
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