Author: stuart taylor
Date: 18:13:54 06/15/02
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On June 15, 2002 at 12:04:36, Christophe Theron wrote: >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 NO! Not at all! Don't worry! The next 12 games might have been 12.5-1/2, the other way round! (Is that not what we are always saying?) S.Taylor
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