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Subject: Re: Genius 7 Enigma

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 21:11:02 10/26/02

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On October 26, 2002 at 20:36:30, Dana Turnmire wrote:

>The Genius programs have always been known in the past as top notch blitz
>programs.  Mr. Lopez posted that Ruffian had beaten Genius 6.5 by a score of +46
>=4 -0.



This score is clearly a mistake. There must be a problem in the setup of the
experiment.



    Christophe




>  At first I thought there had to be something wrong with the way he had
>set the test up but now I believe his results could be accurate.
>
>I ran a 10 game match between Chessmaster 9000 and Genius 7 at Game/90 in which
>Chessmaster only won by one point (+3=5-2).  I have just finished a 10 game
>match between the two programs at Game/5 with Chessmaster winning by a score of
>+6=2-2.  I assume Genius is basically the same engine as 6.5 but what I don't
>understand is why would the Genius program now be stronger at longer time
>controls on faster hardware when it was just the opposite just a few years ago
>on slower machines?  All my games were played with the default settings with
>pondering off and each machine having 64 meg hash.
>
>I have also read that Genius was held in high esteem by correspondence players
>and yet at the same time it was being hailed as the top blitz program.  What's
>going on?  Has anyone tested the Genius 7 program at longer time controls
>against other top programs?



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