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Subject: Re: Best at Blitz...New engines!!

Author: Paul Doire

Date: 10:04:43 01/12/04

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On January 12, 2004 at 11:38:50, Chessfun wrote:

>On January 12, 2004 at 10:57:38, Paul Doire wrote:
>
>>On January 12, 2004 at 10:36:51, Thao Tak-Sen wrote:
>>
>>>On January 12, 2004 at 10:32:04, Paul Doire wrote:
>>>
>>>>Win 98 SE, 256 Ram, Chessbase Fritz 8 GUI
>>>>2700.ctg, 64 Ram Hash, 4,5 and some 6 Tablebases
>>>>P3 450 Mhz
>>>>
>>>>King and Ruffian as UCI of course!
>>>>
>>>>72 game tournament at 5 min
>>>>
>>>>FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH !
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>5 min 2700.ctg trn-1  2004
>>>>
>>>>                      1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9
>>>>1   Deep Junior 8     ** 11 ½0 11 10 11 11 11 11  13.5/16
>>>>2   Deep Fritz 8      00 ** ½½ 01 11 1½ 11 11 11  11.5/16
>>>>3   Fritz 8           ½1 ½½ ** 0½ 1½ 01 11 1½ 11  11.0/16
>>>>4   Junior 8          00 10 1½ ** 01 10 11 11 11  10.5/16  60.50
>>>>5   Shredder 7.04     01 00 0½ 10 ** 11 11 11 11  10.5/16  59.50
>>>>6   Hiarcs 9          00 0½ 10 01 00 ** 1½ 11 11   8.0/16
>>>>7   Chess Tiger 15.0  00 00 00 00 00 0½ ** 1½ 11   4.0/16
>>>>8   The King 3.23     00 00 0½ 00 00 00 0½ ** 10   2.0/16
>>>>9   Ruffian 2.0.0     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 **   1.0/16
>>>
>>>
>>>main problem is hash size in your machine
>>>since,it is known that fritz GUI allocates only 1mb hash,which is useless for
>>>UCI and winboard engines(WB to UCI  adapter) to play games under this GUI
>>>you can better run Auto232 if you  have two computers
>>>UCI(arena) against fritz(chessbase).........thats fair!
>>>
>>>cheers!
>>
>>Than I guess Ruffian and The King MAY have had a handicap.
>>From what I understand this is a random occurence, but nevertheless a
>>handicap to UCI engines.
>
>
>I have Ruffian set as a UCI engine and the Ruffian log indicates that it
>correctly sets the hash table sample below; First move out of book also
>indicates 64M used. I did set 128M in Fritz but the Ruffian CFG is set as 64M.
>
>Although to be honest from what I'm seeing something is wrong with your results.
>
>Logfile: Sun Jan 04 03:24:12 2004
>Total hash size 64M
>Open book: Ruffian.bok
>Book version 0.3 created Mon Oct 20 23:11:55 2003
>293509 book moves, depth=60
>ruffian: [uci]
>[setoption name Hash value 128]
>Total hash size 128M
>{setoption name NalimovPath value C:\Nalimov}
>[setoption name NalimovPath value C:\Nalimov]
>Initializing tablebases: C:\Nalimov
>[setoption name NalimovCache value 16]
>Initializing tablebase cache: 16M
>[isready]
>[position startpos]
>UCI New game
>[go wtime 3600000 btime 3600000]
>  Move    Played   Prop[%]  Score[%]  Last Learn     +        -        =
>* d4!      17556    96.08%    55.28%    +   1.04   28.44%   17.87%   53.69
>  Nf3!      4740     2.40%    55.80%    -   1.52   26.10%   14.49%   59.41
>  c4        4377     1.15%    55.77%    -   1.58   28.88%   17.34%   53.78
>  g3         221     0.26%    50.00%        1.00   25.79%   25.79%   48.42
>  b3          53     0.06%    48.11%        1.00   28.30%   32.08%   39.62
>  f4          33     0.03%    45.45%        1.00   27.27%   36.36%   36.36
>  Nc3         11     0.01%    36.36%        1.00   18.18%   45.45%   36.36
>  c3           6     0.00%    33.33%        1.00   16.67%   50.00%   33.33
>Book: cache 42.50%, time 0.72 sec
>Best move: d4 score 0.00
>
>[position startpos moves d2d4 g8f6]
>[go wtime 3599000 btime 3600000]
>  Move    Played   Prop[%]  Score[%]  Last Learn     +        -        =
>  Nf3       2209    78.45%    53.42%    +   1.10   24.31%   17.47%   58.22
>* c4       10060    18.91%    55.30%    -   0.90   28.98%   18.38%   52.64
>  Bg5        154     2.19%    47.40%        1.00   25.97%   31.17%   42.86
>  Nc3         23     0.30%    45.65%        1.00   13.04%   21.74%   65.22
>  g3           8     0.12%    56.25%        1.00   37.50%   25.00%   37.50
>  c3           3     0.03%    50.00%        1.00    0.00%    0.00%  100.00
>Book: cache 52.50%, time 0.79 sec
>Best move: c4 score 0.00
>
>Sarah.

All I can think of ....logs are OK, is the placement of Ruffian 2' engine. I am
running it from Winboard folder....the UCI import is in the Chessbase engine
folder though, does this matter?

Paul



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