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Subject: Re: CM9000 vs Ruffian, 20 games at G/15 (11.5 - 8.5)

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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