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Subject: Re: Adventure with CB-GUIs (Vol.3 and finished)

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 06:45:05 11/14/04

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On November 14, 2004 at 08:07:39, ThatsIt wrote:

>Hi to all !
>
>Because of Eds remarks about my former experiment
>(i cannot find the link now)
>i've done it once more, this time with 40moves/8min. + 40/8 + 40/8...
>and 80 startpositions (write protect) = 160 games per match.
>Both, ruffian and list, don't produce learnfiles.
>64MB HTs, 4erTBs, ponder=off
>
>1. Match ruffian 2.1.0 vs list 5.12
>75.0 - 85.0 (50-50-60)
>
>After that the procedure was always the same:
>i moved the databasefiles onto a floppydisk and delete
>them on the harddiskdrive.
>Then i shutdown the machine and wait for exact 5 minutes.
>Afterwards i turned on the machine, wait until the pc was
>ready, doubleklick the CB-Symbol (first engine which were
>loaded on the start were always crafty 19.13).
>Now the tournament with the two engine has been started,
>ruffian as fist engine, list as the second.
>
>repetition # 1
>78.5 - 81.5 (46-65-49)
>no great difference in the final result but look at
>the changes in the win-draw-lost statistics !
>
>...same procedure...
>
>repetition  # 2
>83.5 - 76.5 (52-63-45)
>now the match result has turned !!
>
>...same procedure...
>
>repetition  # 3
>77.5 - 82.5 (47-61-52)
>the match result has turned again!!
>
>Best G.S.

Interesting -- from the way you contructed the match, one would think the
results wold be identical.  So clearly , the only difference has to be  variable
engine time.  Which engine is being favored -  first or the second, I am not
sure by your post.



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