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Subject: Re: Arasan 6.0.1-Gnuchess 4.0 match +13 -3 =4

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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