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Subject: Re: crafty 19.6 better than 17.14

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 09:32:53 12/06/03

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On December 06, 2003 at 12:29:10, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 06, 2003 at 11:48:08, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>On December 06, 2003 at 11:42:19, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>
>>>On December 06, 2003 at 11:33:42, Joachim Rang wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 06, 2003 at 11:22:15, Alex Szabo wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>My self-play experiment between crafty versions 19.6 and 17.14 resulted in the
>>>>>19.6 version being stronger by 11 (plus or minus 2) rating points.
>>>>>
>>>>>The experiment was for 20,000 games at a 20+1 time control.  It was run on a
>>>>>2x2GHz pentium4 linux system with xboard 4.2.6.  I can include other details if
>>>>>there is interest.
>>>>
>>>>20.000 Games at a 20+1 time control? How many month did your test last? It seems
>>>>to me impossible to play 20.000 games with Crafty 19.6 since this version is
>>>>only a few weeks available.
>>>>
>>>>regards Joachim
>>>
>>>I thought the same thing - but then I did the math and I felt it was possible.
>>>His 20 +1 must mean 20 seconds plus 1 second - not 20 minutes plus 1 minute.
>>>You could play 20,000 games of 20 seconds plus 1 second in about 500 hours.
>>>Just about 3 weeks , if played continously.
>>
>>I retract this post -- On second thought, I don't think it works.
>
>Why not?
>
>20 seconds per game+1 second per move when game take 60 moves and the programs
>do not use all the time may mean 2.5 minutes per game.
>
>2.5 minutes*20,000=50,000 minutes
>
>It is 833 hours and 20 minutes if my calculation is correct.
>
>When you have 4 dual that play at the same time then you
>get less than 210 hours that is less than 9 days.
>
>I have a problem with this way of testing because 4 dual that work on the same
>time may mean double games and it is better to do different tests at different
>dual.
>
>Uri


Ok ..that works for me.  they were lighting games.



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