Author: Will Singleton
Date: 16:32:00 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 think one of the factors may have been tablebases - It looked >like GnuChess was regularly outplayed in the endgame (the >first match game is a good example). In round 18, Arasan saw >mate in 37 at move 133. But I'm not sure it would have lost >even without TBs - maybe Gnu would have some more draws, though. > >--Jon Hello Jon, You might try Corbit's 5.05 build, plays very well. Will
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