Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:19:47 09/10/98
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On September 10, 1998 at 17:09:57, Heiko Mikala wrote: > >On September 09, 1998 at 20:38:50, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: > >>There was a discussion on freeware that I'd like to revive a little. >>... > >During the last days I did some testing with some of the freely >available Winboard engines too. > >I used Winboard 4.0.0 and all the games were run on a Pentium 200 MMX >with 64MB RAM. > >The tested engines were: > > - Comet A90 > - Crafty 15.18 > - Little Goliath V 1.05 > - Phalanx XVII > - ZChess 0.92 > >All engines were configured to use 8 MB Hash tables, and pondering >was disabled for all engines. > >The results so far: > > Game/5 Game/10 Game/60 > >Comet - Crafty 2-4 - - >Comet - Goliath 8-6 - - >Goliath - Crafty 3-9 1-3 1-6 >Phalanx - Comet 9.5-10.5 - - >Phalanx - Crafty 3.5-14.5 - 1-8 >ZChess - Comet 1-1 - - >ZChess - Crafty 2-12 - 4.5-3.5 > > >The two most important results for me are at the moment: > >- Crafty is leading in all of it's matches so far except for one. > Version 15.18 seems to be very strong! > >- ZChess seems to be very strong at longer time controls. It's the > only engine so far which is able to compete with Crafty in game/60, > whereas Goliath and Phalanx lost these matches badly (Comet didn't > play game/60 yet). > On the other hand ZChess had no chance against Crafty in game/5. > > >Greetings to all of you! >Have fun! > >Heiko. My only suggestion is more games. 20 is on the small side although it is interesting. But I have played thousands of games vs computers on the servers and have seen crafty win 10-15 in a row before the series starts to even out, and I have seen it lose 10-15 in a row before beginning to catch up some. I think 15.18 is playing fairly well, and 15.19 seems better and will be out soon... But the others are not dumb programs either, and hopefully everyone is getting better. All the better to put more pressure on the commercial guys. :)
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