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Subject: Re: Chess Tiger 14.9(a) on Palm Vx - Genius 4 on 486dx-50 0.5-11.5

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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