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Subject: Re: Junior 8 Test Complete: J8 vs CM9k +23/-8/=19 (65%) +107 elo

Author: Anson T J

Date: 10:38:12 08/24/03

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On August 24, 2003 at 11:59:34, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:

>On August 24, 2003 at 11:45:18, Anson T J wrote:
>
>>On August 24, 2003 at 11:28:29, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:
>>
>>>On August 24, 2003 at 10:38:31, Anson T J wrote:
>>>
>>>>All PGN games are available for download and view on the following website:
>>>>http://mysite.freeserve.com/intagrand/junior8test/index.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Test Configuration
>>>>Hardware:  Dual AMD MP 2400+ 512 MB Ram
>>>>Software:  Junior 8 GUI & 3-5 piece EGTB
>>>>
>>>>Engine Details
>>>>Processor:     1 CPU each (AMD MP2400+)
>>>>Hash:          128 MB hash each
>>>>Ponder Move:   On
>>>>Books:         Native Books / CM9k (F6's general.ctg)
>>>>Time Control:  40/2Hrs + 20/1Hr + Rest/30 mins
>>>>Rounds:        50 games vs each opponent
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Opponent:         Junior 8's Score:
>>>>Shredder 7.04     +18/-12/=20 (56%) +41  elo
>>>>Fritz 8           +17/-11/=22 (56%) +41  elo
>>>>Hiarcs 8          +28/-8/=14  (70%) +147 elo
>>>>CM 9000 (SKR)     +17/-10/=23 (57%) +48  elo
>>>>CM 9000           +23/-8/=19  (65%) +107 elo
>>>>
>>>>This concludes my Junior 8 Summer Test. I hope people will find the games and
>>>>results useful. Sorry that I will not be able to run any more test games for a
>>>>while as I can no longer spare the CPU time. A fine performance by Junior 8
>>>>here. Also congrats to the "SKR creators" as the SKR personality of Chess Master
>>>>9000 performed 59 elo points stronger than the default settings.
>>>There is a big problem with this match: You did not use the Chessmaster opening
>>>book for CM .This is like separating the head from body.Opening books are indeed
>>>part of the program.Also I should note that (and I have said this many
>>>times) that comp vs comp matches prove nothing about how a program will do
>>>against humans:That is Program A may be stronger than program B by 100 Elo in
>>>Comp vs Comp ;but Program B may be stronger by 100 Elo than program A when
>>>playing only humans.Both Fritz and Junior were disasters in the matches against
>>>Kasparov and Kramnik. In any case I do not see the points in these
>>>Comp Matches(We need more human vs Comp) as SSDF is doing a great job pitting
>>>programs against each other.
>>
>>a) No CM book exists for The King
>>b) I didn't mention human games, nor am I concerned with human games. If you
>>want human games, theres not much point looking in an engine match is there?
>>c) SSDF hardware is much weaker than what I used and they don't test CM either.
>I donot understand part a) CM9000 does have its own opening book(ie the default
>personality)I just checked my CD the book is called CM9000.

CM9000 doesn't have auto play features so I used "The King 3.23" which is the CM
9000 engine except it runs under the ChessBase GUI (which allows auto play).

In the Chessbase interface Chessmaster doesn't have a book. As Kurt was one of
the creators of the SKR personality, I took his advice to use the fritz 6
general.ctg. When testing CM9000 default, I used the same book so a comparison
could be drawn between the personalities.



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