Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 11:14:01 09/24/02
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On September 24, 2002 at 13:48:59, John Merlino wrote: >I just completed a 20-game G/15 match between CM9000 and Ruffian 1.0. Both >programs used their default hash settings and books. Both engines had pondering >ON. This was done on a P4-2.66. CM9000 won 11.5 to 8.5 (+8 =7 -5). > What are the default hash - settings for CM and Ruffian? Did you use TB's? Did you use a single-cpu machine and enabled pondering? >I intend to do a G/60 match next, but this might have to wait until after the >"CM vs GM" match. > >Some observations: > >1) It appears that CM and Ruffian probably both used, to various extents, the >2500.PGN file to create their opening books. I have never seen CM stay in book >against other programs as long as it does against Ruffian. > >2) Ruffian tends to use its time very liberally. In many cases in these games, >Ruffian had less than TWO minutes (out of 15) on its clock after only 30 moves. >Compared to The King's very conservative time usage, there were even some >instances in which The King had 10 minutes more on its clock than Ruffian did! > I can confirm these behaviour.
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