Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 11:40:06 07/25/02
I'm going to make some automatches between amateur engines. As this is the first time I try to make this, I'd be glad to get some advices. I will use a PIII-Notebook at 1.1 GHz with 256 MB RAM. I plan to make not a tournament but one to one matches with much games (a few hundreds) to get significant results. What are fair and reasonable testconditions? I will run the match on PIII 1.1 GHz and 256 MB RAM under WinXP. I think its reasonable to give every engine 80 MB Hashtablesize. I still don't know which GUI I shall use. I tested Arena and it worked, but with some problems. With Winboard I don't know how to make automatches, maybe someone can help? First engine will be Yace 0.99.56, which I consider the strongest amateurengine today. Which engine can compete with Yace? I think I will run the games with 10 minutes and 10 s per move for each engine. Is this to short? Another question is, which opening books I shall use. Yace has an own book as most of the other engines. But I don't know how good they are, SOS for example comes only with a very little own book, which will be a handicap. Does someone know a "neutral" but large book, which will run with the most engines? So far today, I'd appreciate any suggestions from you.
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