Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Experiment #6 - 2nd match finished !

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 10:08:31 10/14/03

Go up one level in this thread


On October 14, 2003 at 06:46:39, martin fierz wrote:

>nice tests! shredder vs junior and CT15 vs rebel 12 beta at least show trends of
>favoring one program at short and another program at long time control.
>


Martin, I always have great respect for your postings but in this instance I
must differ with your conclusion.  The same engine won in every match in each
set.  The margins of victory decreased in 7 of the 9 cases where the time
control was increased (i.e., almost 78% of the time).

To me, this supports the idea that, IN GENERAL, the better engine will win by
smaller and smaller margins as the time control increases -- leading to the
possible conclusion that more games at faster time controls is a very efficient
way to determine which of two engines is better (but not by how much).

Russell Reagan made this (IMHO excellent) post recently, which the new results
seem to support:

http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?320960



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.