Author: Kai Skibbe
Date: 23:21:14 09/14/98
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On September 15, 1998 at 02:11:10, Heiko Mikala wrote: > >On September 15, 1998 at 01:58:33, Kai Skibbe wrote: > >>On September 14, 1998 at 17:04:40, Heiko Mikala wrote: >>> >>>Final standings (output using Rebel 8.0): >>> >>> Name Tot Score + « - Perc Elo >>> >>>1. WCrafty-15_18 80 63.0 - 17.0 61 4 15 78% 0 >>>2. Comet-WB-A90 80 40.5 - 39.5 33 15 32 50% 0 >>>3. ZChess 80 37.5 - 42.5 33 9 38 46% 0 >>>4. Phalanx-XVII 80 36.0 - 44.0 31 10 39 45% 0 >>>5. Goliath105 80 23.0 - 57.0 19 8 53 28% 0 >>> >> >>Hi Heiko, >> >>I have played several games between Crafty and Phalanx17 and I think >>Phalanx has a bug so it will loose many games in a match game (/mg=x). >>It has happened that Phalanx scores 6-2 against another engine at blitz level >>and than loose the rest of the games. When you take a look at the pgn-file >>you see that Phalanx looses in <=40 moves. Sometime <=20 (!!). >>Because of this I only play Phalanx with /mg=1 against other machines. So I >>get very good results for Phalanx and I think it is very strong. >>Could you please test it with the option /mg=1 and post or email me your >>experiences ? > >Hi Kai, > >yes I found out about the bug too. It happens, whenever Phalanx plays many games >in a row, without beeing restartet - for example in match-game mode in Winboard. >The bug is, that it will stop thinking, it will play it's moves immediately >without using it's time. >Because of this I decided to play all Winboard matches with the flags /-reuse >and /-reuse2. In this way the engines are restarted for every new game, instead >of only starting a new game with the 'new' command using the same engine. >I had no problems with Phalanx since then. Hi Heiko, Thank you for the tip ! I will test it :-) Best regards Kai > >There should be no 'bad' Phalanx games in my results, because I replayed those >first games, in which this phenomenon took place. > >And yes, I too think, that Phalanx is very strong, I'm looking forward to >testing version XVIII ! > >Heiko.
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