Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 03:37:34 12/04/04
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On December 04, 2004 at 06:14:14, George Sobala wrote:
>Thanks for the info. A powerful test setup you have!
>
>I feel that an engine that gets disproportionately stronger on faster hardware
>(or longer time controls) is preferrable to one that does the opposite! It will
>only improve with time as our computers get faster.
I accept this opinion but nevertheless do not want
to change my mind. BTW, have you ever seen an engine
that becomes weaker on faster hardware or at slower
time controls?
Kurt
>
>I want to rerun the Nunn2 match against CT15 on my Centrino 1.6GHz. Do you have
>a PGN of this match for me to compare? I will run it at the 20'/40 moves
>recurring.
The Nunn2 match vs CT_15 (40'/40 on Duron 1.3/64 MB hash)
will be finished in about half an hour I think. You will
get the full PGN from me. But about one thing I am sure:
it's not possible to have a real comparison by simply
using an adapted time control on a faster PC to simulate
40'/40. The behaviour of most engines is not the same at
different time controls. Otherwise you could for example
compare a match 5m/g on P4 3.6 with a 40'/40 match on 486/33
but this does not work.
Kurt
I will use ERT because I am still concerned about the possible
>Chessbase GUI UCI hash problem. Other UCI engine authors have certainly reported problems with the Chessbase GUI secretly and randomly resetting the hash to 1M, only discovered by looking at log files.
This could (I do not hope so) be a possible reason I
can't check. TaskInfo shows nothing irregular but can
we trust here what TaskInfo displays. Another example
where TaskInfo gives wrong outputs is Deep Sjeng as
TaskInfo is unable to recognize correctly the allocated
RAM by Deep Sjeng. Before staring your tests, I suggest
that this most important question should be answered
by experts.
Kurt
Gandalf does not produce a log file, so can we be certain all is ok?
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