Author: swaminathan natarajan
Date: 11:22:12 12/27/03
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On December 27, 2003 at 14:06:50, Luis Smith wrote: >On December 27, 2003 at 13:56:48, Brian Katz wrote: > >>On December 27, 2003 at 13:37:12, Luis Smith wrote: >> >>>On December 27, 2003 at 12:48:56, Brian Katz wrote: >>> >>>>Has anyone encountered this Ruffian problem also? >>>>I was using Ruffian 1.0.0 on the Playchess server and early in the opening it >>>>would just stall and not make a move and lose on time. >>>>I was running an engine tournament on my PC and found that Ruffian 1.0.0 did >>>>very well at game 5 on an AMD Athlon XP 2600+, better than 1.0.1. It did better >>>>than Fritz 8 so I wanted to experiment with Ruffian 1.0.0 on the Playchess >>>>Server to see just how well it would do. >>>> Brian >>> >>>IIRC Ruffian 1.0.0 has a bug in pondering mode, which would explain why it runs >>>fine in eng-eng matches (ponder=off) and why it would crash. You can either >>>download Ruffian 1.0.1 from the same site, or you can download it with Arena at >>>www.playwitharena.com >> Thanks for the speedy reply and explanation. >>I already have Ruffian 1.0.1 but I found that 1.0.0 did much better in an engine >>tournament than 1.0.1. >>I need to run more tests. >>At the moment I am running an engine tournament between Ruffian 1.0.0 vs Fritz 8 >>on an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ 1 GIG DDR SDRAM >>Game 30 (No increments)Hashtables set at 256 MB Ponder Off Both using the Fritz >>8 opening book. At this very moment Ruffian thinks it is winning as white with a >>+-(2.93)evaluation while Fritz 8 thinks it is behind by only +-(1.62) Earlier on >>Fritz 8 had it as almost even, while Ruffian had it as +-(1.50). >>Now the game is won by Ruffian K+R+p+p vs K+R. >>Is Ruffian 1.0.0 really that good in comparison to Fritz 8 or is this only >>because I am running the test on the same computer rather than identical >>computer vs identical computers? I always thought that having ponder off, even >>though it off for BOTH engines, affects some engines more negatively than >>others. I believe that Ponder on is an integral part of some programs. >> >>All views on this would be greatly appreciated. >> >>Brian > >IIRC (yes I know I have a bad memory) the only difference between Ruffian 1.0.0 >and Ruffian 1.0.1 was that simple ponder bug fix...so I guess what you are >experiencing is just some fluctuations. Play a few more games, it more than >likely will even out.
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