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Subject: Re: El Chinito 3.1c0 simply got lucky this time :-)

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 22:51:36 11/07/03

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On November 07, 2003 at 17:51:34, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On November 07, 2003 at 15:39:27, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>
>>On November 07, 2003 at 14:56:10, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>Honestly El Chinito got lucky this time against such a strong opponent as Fritz
>>>I will bet anything that If I run the same match again or several times, Fritz
>>>will score at least 5 points more than El Chinito 3.1c0.
>>>
>>>Jorge
>>
>>El Chinito obviously didn't play with it's own tiny book.
>>Both engines played with the same big opening book, so the result is not
>>surprising at all.
>>
>>IMO El Chinito is very strong in the endgame but relatively weak in the early
>>middlegame. Early middlegame positions often didn't occur in your match.
>>
>>A 20 games 5+3 blitz match El Chinito 3.1c0 (WB2Uci) - Hiarcs 9 ended 7-13 (+4
>>=6 -10) on my AMD 1.6 Ghz with own books and ponder off.
>>
>>Michael
>
>
>
>Did you make sure that when you start Hiarcs 9, when you click on Engine =>
>Change Main Engine => that the Permanent Brain is check Off. Since when you
>start a match under File => New => Engine Match => Engine vs Engine even if the
>Permanent brain is NOT check on, but if you have the Main Engine as Hiarcs 9
>with Permanent ON, it will still play with Permanent brain on.
>
>Jorge

Of course permanent brain was off for both engines.
If a Chessbase engine uses permanent brain you always can see it in the engines
window.
I also check CPU usage with process explorer at the beginning of a match with
winboard engines.

Michael



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