Author: Jim Bodkins
Date: 12:37:48 06/02/03
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On June 02, 2003 at 05:12:05, Uri Blass wrote: >On June 02, 2003 at 03:15:57, Ryan B. wrote: > >>My tests against a wide range of engines all run in tournaments of random time >>controls show List 5.04, Yace, and Amy to all be stronger than Ruffian running >>on a Duron 800 all games with 24 mb hash. >> >>Ryan > >I think that something must be wrong in your tests because Yace and Amy are >significantly weaker than Ruffian based on Leo's tournament and we are not >talking about a small difference. > >Maybe Ruffian has problems when it does not run under winboard. >I know that Ruffian impressive results in Leo tournament were achieved under >wonboard. > >I found in tests with a version of movei that it may show a different behaviour >under Fritz and under winboard in one of the nunn matches. > >I used versions that search fixed number of nodes so the time control is not an >excuse. > >For playing 2 games of the nunn2 match I simply wrote movei a book with only one >line(the line of the nunn2 match game 4). > >Under winboard I had no problem to play 2 games. >Under Fritz the first game was finished in a mate for one program like under >winboard but in the second game one of the versions showed an illogical pv >and stopped to respond(I used 40 minutes/40 moves but the time control is not >very important when the program searches only 81920 nodes). > >The behaviour is reproducable. > >The first game was not adjudicated but was finished in a mate so the tendency of >Fritz to adjudicate games >cannot be an excuse. > >Uri My experience as well. (Although I generally prefer the "game" played by Yace PB to Ruffians knife fight :) Ruffian normally dominates Yace PB).
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