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Subject: Re: I am going to release a new version of movei soon

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 15:09:27 02/28/04

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On February 28, 2004 at 16:41:25, Luis Smith wrote:

>On February 28, 2004 at 16:14:48, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>The last results of movei00_8_174 against Junior5 were positive and movei seem
>>to be able to beat Junior5 with time handicap of 3:1 in the nunn2 match at 90
>>minutes against 30 minutes(ponder off) and that seems to be a good reason for a
>>new release.
>>
>>00_8_174 has result of 15-9 in the last 24 nunn match games against Junior5(it
>>is 26-24 for movei if I combine this result with result of 008_168a and 008_170
>>that have a bug of using swap_list[-1])
>>
>>Some known bugs or disadvantages of 00_8_174
>>
>>1)Movei00_8_174 can fail to deliver the fastest mate because as soon as it see a
>>mate it may prune other mates but I do not know of cases of missing a win
>>because of that problem.
>>I also do not know of very long games like smarthink's games because of that
>>problem.
>>
>>2)Movei00_8_174 does not use tablebases except internal kpk tablebases of Dieter
>>that were posted here with permission of Dieter.
>>
>>3)Movei00_8_174 has a very small book and the book still does not know about
>>tranposition.
>>
>>4)Movei is using logfile with the name moveiloginfo143.log(the name is based on
>>movei00_8_143 and I was too lazy to change it)
>>
>>
>>I did some small changes in movei from the last version that are probably not
>>changes in the engine unless I have some bugs but I assume that every change may
>>do the program weaker because of some bug so I plan to release 00_8_174 and not
>>a version with small changes like changing the name of the logfile and having
>>special functions to write to logfile.
>>
>>I plan to write some information in hebrew and english about movei and send it
>>as a zipped file to Leo who is going to release it.
>>
>>I am not sure if I am going to finish writing information about it today and
>>even if I finish it then I am still not sure if Leo is going to release it in
>>his page in the next few hours but you can expect it soon.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Hi Uri,
>
>  This is good news.  Preliminary test results at g/15 AMD XP 2200+ 64 MB hash
>for all engines.
>
>Movei AMD XP 2200+ 384 MB RAM  2004
>
>Movei 00_8_174   - Amateur 2.70       3.0 - 5.0    +2/-4/=2    37.50%
>Movei 00_8_174   - Frenzee 146        6.0 - 2.0    +5/-1/=2    75.00%
>Movei 00_8_174   - SlowChess 2.9      4.5 - 3.5    +4/-3/=1    56.25%
>Movei 00_8_174   - Tao 5.4            2.0 - 6.0    +1/-5/=2    25.00%
>Movei 00_8_174   - Quark 2.05b        5.0 - 3.0    +4/-2/=2    62.50%
>Movei 00_8_174   - Hagrid 0.7.56      8.0 - 0.0    +8/-0/=0    100.00%
>Movei 00_8_174   - Movei 00_8_173     3.0 - 5.0    +0/-2/=6    37.50%
>
>Hagrid is probably not a good opponent to test against Movei as it is a bit weak
>but I wanted to include a wide range of engines, and also Quark wasn't using its
>own book.
>
>Movei00_8_174 vs. Junior 5 at g/5 with no handicap resulted in 1 - 8 in favor of
>Junior and Movei only managed 2 draws so I stopped the tournament.  They were
>both using Perfect5.ctg from Sedat's website.

Thanks for your results.
Note that the only difference between 173 and 174 is removing a bug in
swap_list.
I guess that 173 was lucky to get 5-3 against 174 and I am not considering going
back to 173.

8-0 against hagrid is a very good result
Hagrid is weak but not so weak to expect this result.
On the other hand losing 5-3 against amateur is a small disappointment.

Uri



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