Author: Alex Szabo
Date: 09:41:30 12/06/03
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On December 06, 2003 at 11:51:20, Mike Byrne wrote: >On December 06, 2003 at 11:45:46, Alex Szabo 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 >> >>It would have taken about 30 days; it actually took 7.5 days because I ran 4 >>matches at the same time. > >Did you mean 2,000 games and not 20,000 games. 20,000 games in 30 days means >666 games a day or 28 games every hour. Or perhap better defined what did you >mean by 20+1?. I mean 20,000 (twenty thousand) games. "20+1" means clocks start with 20 seconds and 1 second is added after each move played. The command to xboard was, in part, "-tc 0:20 -inc 1". My actual throughput was 110.5 games per hour for the 181 hours the experiment took to run.
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