Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 13:23:33 08/30/98
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On August 29, 1998 at 16:17:48, Kai Skibbe wrote: >Since the last two month I have tested several chess engines with >winboard 4.0. My experience leads to the following configuration: > > >***** Part of winboard.ini ****** > >" >/firstChessProgramNames="Comet_A95 /fd=d:\\WinBoard\\Comet >\"Craf1518 /hash=24m /hashp=10m /tbpath=d:\\WinBoard\\Crafty\\TB\" >/fd=d:\\WinBoard\\Crafty >\"TCB_0037 !start.cui -inc 1 -tc 1 -cp -thinking\" /fd=d:\\WinBoard\\TCBishop >\"ExC_245 xb hash 32\" /fd=d:\\WinBoard\\ExChess >\"Phal_17 -t32768 -r800\" /fd=d:\\WinBoard\\Phalanx >Gol_105 /fd=d:\\WinBoard\\Goliath >" >/secondChessProgramNames="Comet_A95 /sd=d:\\WinBoard\\Comet >\"Craf1518 /hash=24m /hashp=10m /tbpath=d:\\WinBoard\\Crafty\\TB\" >/sd=d:\\WinBoard\\Crafty >\"TCB_0037 !start.cui -inc 1 -tc 1 -cp -thinking\" /sd=d:\\WinBoard\\TCBishop >\"ExC_245 xb hash 32\" /sd=d:\\WinBoard\\ExChess >\"Phal_17 -t32768 -r800\" /sd=d:\\WinBoard\\Phalanx >Gol_105 /sd=d:\\WinBoard\\Goliath >" > >**** crafty.rc (configuration file of crafty) **** > >log on >learn 7 >noise 30000 >book on >book random 1 >book width 2 >resign 9 >display extstats > >**** comet.ics (configuration file of comet) **** > >MAX_HASH [nr of megabytes]: 32 >PONDER [ON or OFF]: OFF >SELECTIVITY [ON or OFF]: ON >BOOK [ON or OFF]: ON > >**** !start.cui (configuration file of TCBishop) **** > >prompt off >board off >wait on >;logf TCBishop.log > >; Read the opening book >; ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >book > readpgn <tcb_book.pgn >x > >; Hash table >; ~~~~~~~~~~ >tcbtest > size 24 > size2 21 >x > >**** goliath.ini (configuration file of goliath) **** > >HASHSIZE [0 - 80 MB]=26 >BOOK [ON or OFF]=ON >PONDER [ON or OFF]=OFF >________________________________________________________ > > > >With these settings I have played automatically with the match game option >(/mg=xx) of winboard. >Does anyone have other experiences with the configuration files ? Are my >settings >optimal for the engines ? >In previous posts in CCC I have read about different opinions of turning >pondering >on while playing match games. What do the authors think ? >IMO crafty, comet, phalanx, tcbishop and exchess does not have any problems >with pondering on. Only the author of goliath explicitly say that pondering has >to be turned off while playing against other engines. > > >Greetings >Kai I do not recommend pondering on as it only wastes cpu time as the pondering engine wastes 50% of it's pondering by guessing wrongly and thus robs cpu time from the engine that is to move. Pondering causes certain other problems depending on the program. I have found that a time control of 10 2 is optimal for number of games and length of each game. -- Komputer Korner
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