Author: Uri Blass
Date: 07:05:57 05/25/04
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On May 25, 2004 at 09:45:14, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... I do not think that other programs are better well tested in ponder off conditions. I use most of my tests with ponder off but I do not test changing the time management in ponder off conditions. I do not think that the programmers of other programs spent a lot of time in testing changes in the time management in ponder off conditions. Uri
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