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Subject: Re: Gothmog goes commercial

Author: Bryan Hofmann

Date: 14:16:38 04/02/04

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>Regarding the tactical monstrosity:  You are probably referring to Gábor's
>impressive
>results for Gothmog in the ECMGCP test suite reported on the Winboard forum
>earlier
>today.  I'll reveal a little secret:  Gothmog is cheating (but don't tell
>anyone).  It often guesses
>that a combination works a couple of plies before it is really able to calculate
>it all.  In
>real games, it occasionally backfires.
>
>Tord

Well it guesses darn good. After reading the WinBoard Forum entry I wanted to
see what kind of results I would get on a faster system AMD XP 3000+ at the same
10 seconds per move with Tao running heavy extensions and for a gage to compare
the difference in systems I also ran Gothmog to see the imporvement on a faster
system. The results on the ECMGCP were


Tao 5.6 with the follow settings Solved 147 out 183
PreExtension = 16
CheckExtension = 24
MateExtension = 24
OneReplyExtension = 24
RecapExtensionType= normal
RecapExtension = 12
HalveExtension = 2.0
NullMoveType = R=2/3

Tao 5.6 with default settings solved 143 out of 183

Gothmog with Selectivity 6 solved 143 out of 183


I will let eveyone draw their own conclusion here...






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