Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:45:14 05/25/04
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On May 25, 2004 at 07:10:47, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >On May 25, 2004 at 06:41:31, paul bedrey wrote: > >>On May 25, 2004 at 02:07:19, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >> >>>We are planning to play a long amateur tournament >>>time control 90m+30s, ponder=off, using Wb2Uci.exe, >>>under Fritz8-GUI (or perhaps Arena-GUI) with >>>8 participants under the following conditions: >>> >>>- own book must be available for each engine >>>- access to EGTB possible >>>- no commercial version of the engines on the market >>>- only versions released for public (no change during tournament) >>> >>>and are now wondering which are the strongest engines we should/could >>>use in this long tournament over 70 rounds whereby two (2) programs may >>>not belong to the best ones provided they play a particular interesting >>>style. In this respect: we have already reserved a place for Gothmog 0.4.8. >>>Considering these conditions we see that no List, no Ktulu, no Ruffian >>>can participate. I am awaiting your suggestions for this tournament >>>possibly with explanations why engine X should be included. >>>Kurt >> >>Aristarch >>SOS >>Smarthink >>El Chinito >>Delfi >>Crafty >>Yace > > > Is is not said that there would be a great gap in > playing strength between Crafty using ponder=off > or ponder=on. Since our matches are always played > on single PC's with ponder=off, I fear to hear > complaints like "Crafty with ponder=off is not > a serious match". > Kurt Crafty was designed to play with ponder=on. That is the only way I test it. However, the ponder=off time allocation code _has_ been tweaked from time to time as people make suggestions. It is therefore better than it used to be under such a condition, but I doubt it is as well-tested...
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