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Subject: Re: Crude peek at a bunch of strong Winboard engines

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 03:15:42 10/07/03

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On October 06, 2003 at 12:24:32, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On October 06, 2003 at 11:45:35, Robert Allgeuer wrote:
>
>>On October 06, 2003 at 10:39:27, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>Interesting, are there any reasons why rebel12 is stronger than rebel12_cb in a
>>statistically significant way?
>> 2 Rebel12           : 2828   39  48   200    65.2 %   2719   25.5 %
>> 6 Rebel12_Cb        : 2654   61  68    99    60.1 %   2583   19.2 %
>
>2828 - 48 = 2780
>2654 + 61 = 2715
>
>So it seems that Rebel12 is stronger than the one called Rebel12_CB.
>The Rebel12 games are with the prerelease version and played mostly under
>Winboard.
>The Rebel12_CB games are with the released version and played under Arena.
>But I do not know why we should see a statisically significant difference.

Ed Schroeder posted some time ago that Rebel got only 25% of CPU power playing
under Arena when installed as a WB engine - this sounds like a good explanation
for the strength difference.

You could try to install it with WB2Uci or play with WinBoard or CP itself of
course.

Peter



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