Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Results of 112 engines in test suite "WM-Test" (100 pos) for download

Author: Manfred Meiler

Date: 14:39:48 08/16/02

Go up one level in this thread


On August 16, 2002 at 17:13:14, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 16, 2002 at 16:43:18, Manfred Meiler wrote:

(snip)

>>>I believe that all the programs that you tested are better
>>>than at least 70% of the free chess programs.

>>
>>
>>Hmmm, maybe.
>>But what do you mean with this statement ?
>>For me it's interesting to play with the professional chess progams as well as
>>with the free chess programs.
>>
>>Manfred

>
>I meant to say that most of the engines still were not tested.
>
>I can give a lot of names of programs that were not tested.
>
>Some examples:
>1)Francesca(the only first division program that was not tested)
>2)Arasan(second division)
>3)Exchess(second division)
>4)Beowulf(second division)
>5)Gaviota(second division)
>6)Inmichess(second division)
>6)Resp(third division but is going to promote and probably better
>than a lot of second division programs)
>7)Knight1.75a(playing in thethird division)
>8)Ant(playing in the third division)
>9)Movei(my program also third division)
>
>For the divisions see http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/
>You can find in the history pages a lot of weaker winboard
>programs
>
>Some examples from the 4th division:
>1)Ufim
>2)Gerbil
>3)Faile
>4)Monarch
>
>Uri


Hello Uri,

thanks for your explanation - now I do understand !

Francesca (M.A.D.) is rather strong IMO.
I'd wanted to test it but I wasn't able to do that ;-(
The engine seems not to play from setup positions, right ?

For all the other mentioned engines it seems to me that this test suite is too
hard for them.
The WM-Test was designed by the test authors Gurevich/Schumacher for engines
with playing strength in a range of 2500 - 2800 ELO (look at the attached readme
file) - in this point of view (ELO >=2500) I shouldn't have tested many of these
112 engines... :-)

Last but not least: One engine in WM-Test means over 33 hours testing !

BTW: In older test suites (BS-2830, BS-2001) I've tested (older versions of)
Arasan, EXchess, InmiChess, KnightX, Ant, Faile...

Regards,
Manfred



This page took 0.01 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.