Author: Uri Blass
Date: 13:22:44 10/03/02
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On October 03, 2002 at 15:06:18, Jon Dart wrote: >I have recently finished running a 20 game match between >Arasan 6.0.1 and GnuChess 4.0 (the version that comes with >Winboard). Time control was 40/40 on a 1.8GHz P4 Xeon >system, with ponder off. > >Arasan had 64MB for hashtables, and also had access to 4 >man tablebases, with 4MB for the tablebase cache. > >I ran gnuchess with "-T 2000000" for the hash table size. >I'm not quite sure what the conversion to bytes is, but Gnu >was using about 56MB total RAM. > >Games are available at http://www.arasanchess.org/gnumatch.zip. > >I was a little surprised at the result (+13 -3 =4 for >Arasan), because GnuChess 4.0 is not bad at all and in the >past has been a respectable opponent. I believe that gnu is only good at blitz but not too fast blitz. In 1 minute per game it is losing often on time. I suggest that you try a match at 5 minutes per game. I believe that in longer time control it is also not strong because it earns less from time than other programs. I expect arasan to win also in 5 minutes per game but I expect the result to be closer to 50%. I believe that in 120/40 it can even lose a match against Crafty when Crafty has inferior hardware(10 times slower) Uri
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