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Subject: Re: A little match beween Movei and MChess

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 03:35:50 08/30/04

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On August 29, 2004 at 17:36:18, Stuart Cracraft wrote:

>On August 29, 2004 at 15:15:39, Peter Berger wrote:
>
>>Movei played on my Athlon 64 3200+ ( 2.0 GHz) notebook, Windows XP, 64 MB Hash
>>
>>MChess 7 played on PIV 2.2 GHz, Windows 98SE DOS mode, 60 MB hash.
>>
>>Time control was game in one hour.
>>
>>A race to 6 wins, similar to old-time human worldchampion matches. Movei won
>>with 6-5 with zero draws, congratulations.
>>
>>Interesting games IMHO. To some extent they feel like human-computer games when
>>MChess often looks like the human. But Movei has made progress too when it is
>>about knowledge. In some games it seemed to show clearly improved understanding
>>of king safety compaired to older versions.
>
>Any reason why you didn't disable thinking on the opponent's time and run
>the match entirely on one box?

Yes, there are a few.

a.) MChess can only use a hashtable of decent size if the system is run in
DOS-mode - so no multi-tasking possible.

b.) I prefer matches with pondering enabled in general.

c.) In a previous match at game/30 Movei got slaughtered by MChess 7, so I
didn't expect the hardware advantage in this match to be too serious:
http://chessprogramming.org/cccsearch/ccc.php?art_id=353377

Actually one conclusion I drew from the three matches between Movei and MChess
is that choice of openings is extremely important, partly because of MChess's
unusual way of learning. I have no idea at all whether Movei or MChess is
stronger ( even if it is too few games anyway).

Peter



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