Author: Tim Foden
Date: 11:36:56 09/12/03
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On September 12, 2003 at 12:56:01, Tom Likens wrote: >On September 12, 2003 at 10:32:19, Tim Foden wrote: > >>On September 12, 2003 at 10:11:44, Jon Dart wrote: >> >>>I've run some test games between Green Light Chess and Arasan lately, and Arasan >>>is getting beaten like a red-haired stepchild :-(. So I'm impressed, too. >>> >>>--Jon >> >>:) GLC just got lucky... I assure you :) >> >>More seriously though, over the years GLC has got stronger and stronger. And >>during this time there has generally been a specific a target engine... one I >>played GLC against, and GLC lost, the target being to beat this engine. Arasan >>was one of the engines, that certainly used to pound GLC into the ground. :) >> >>Other engines that have been used for this purpose by GLC are TCB and Phalanx. >>Nowadays I have a gauntlet of 11 engines, and Arasan, TCB and Phalanx are still >>in it. But it also includes Crafty, Yace, Delfi, Aristarch, etc. >> >>My target these days it not just to beat the 'next' target, but to beat them all >>:) It may take some time! (particularly that Ruffian fella :) >> >>Cheers, Tim. > >Tim/Jon, > >This actually brings up an interesting subject for me. I do almost >*all* of my development under Linux and I'm wondering what a good >set of programs that run natively under Linux would be for this >gauntlet. My current short list (with the requirement that it >run *natively* under Linux includes): > >Arasan >Gothmog >Crafty >Yace >Pepito >Gnuchess 4.x >Gnuchess 5.x >pepito > >Are there other good engines that run under Linux and Xboard >that would be worth including. Also note that I'd like a >weaker program or two since I'd like to be able to run the >gauntlet and win at least a few games ;-) > >My idea would be to run a set of 10 game matches (of 10 games >each) against these engines (most likely at 15 +3 time levels) >as an indication of wheter I'm making progress. I'd love to >include PostModernist, but there is no available Linux version. > >Anyway, thoughts and suggestions would be appreciated. > >regards, >--tom The others have good suggestions about what engines are available under Linux, which is an area I'm afriad I know nothing about. :) I have a few related comments though: 1. I feel it is good to have some engines around the strength of your own engine in the Gauntlet, else you either win too easily or loose to easily. 2. My in my gauntlet I play 50 matches against each other engine, resulting in 500 games played. I still would like to increase this to 1000, but this takes too long. At 40/5 all of these 10 matches take a total of about 2 weeks for me on my spare machine (Duron 800MHz). Before I start such I gauntlet I need to have had some favourable-ish smaller matches with a new version [say 50 each against 2 or 3 opponents at 3+3 overnight on my main machine (Athlon 1.66GHz)]. 3. I choose opponents that are either without learning, or where I can disable the learning, as I don't want to be testing against a moving target. The results are inaccurate enough already without introducing other possibilities for variation. Cheers, Tim.
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