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Subject: Re: Hiarcs6/Fritz5 in GREAT Nunn-test

Author: Hans Christian Lykke

Date: 18:51:31 08/12/98

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On August 12, 1998 at 09:31:53, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On August 12, 1998 at 08:02:07, Hans Christian Lykke wrote:
>
>>Hej!
>>
>>I have started playing the Nunn-test on my P200MMX 64MB, between the
>>engines Hiarsc 6 and Fritz 5.0. (both get 23MB hash)
>>
>>I will play it 3 times with the following levels.
>>
>> 67 seconds per move.
>>200 seconds per move.
>>600 seconds per move.
>>
>>How will this end up?
>>
>>What does all the "wise" guys on CCC think?
>>
>>Let´s have some predictions.
>>
>>
>>Venlig hilsen
>>
>>Hans Chr. Lykke
>
>I think the x seconds per move setting is a mistake. If you sum up the
>computation times once the match is finished you could well realize that one
>program has taken much more time that the other one.

My experience playing with ex. 1 hour with engine/engine is, that in too many
games one of the programs will loose on time!
I know that loosing on time is a part of chess, but I don´t think that is so
good in this test.

Here are the total times of some of the games played until know

1:20:51  1:20:31
1:07:34  1:07:37
0:45:29  0:45:53
7:30:21  7:42:24
1:19:47  1:10:46  0-1
5:26:01  3:49:19  0-1

So I think you are not right that one program has taken much more time that
the other one.

In the two last games on the list there is a greater difference, but the program
using most time, lost!


Venlig hilsen

Hans Chr. Lykke



>
>You should use standard time controls (x minutes for y moves) or sudden death
>time controls (x minutes for the game) so that the time problem keeps under
>control. For the levels you have given, you could for example take:
>
>1) 1 hour for the game
>2) 3 hours 30 minutes for the game
>3) 10 hours for the game
>
>
>    Christophe



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