Author: John Merlino
Date: 11:26:53 01/24/05
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On January 24, 2005 at 12:33:24, adam wilks wrote: >I tested Fritz 8 bilbao in Chessbase with King 3.33 in Chessmaster 10 K >interface(using default settings) in 5 minute games. King 3.33 won 3, drew 2 >and lost 1. Does this reflect king 3.33 strength? If not what are the optimum >settings to find its optimum strength(i e through what opening books? should i >use theor own or custom made books like AMD XP or 5moves ctg? Or should i run a >tourney with both engines over the John Nunn test? as this last idea might have >a better grasp of an engines strength? or should i not include an opening book >and let the engines just play chess themselves? All you can say with certainty is that CM won a 6-game match against Fritz at a 5-minute time control. You can CLAIM that, because of this result, CM is stronger than Fritz, and you may be right. But the margin of error is so huge that nobody will accept this statement. Generally, around here we need at least 100 games in a very controlled setting before we start to accept any statistical findings. As for "optimum settings" for The King, this debate will rage on forever, since there are, practically speaking, an infinite number of possible combinations of settings (not to mention different opening books and time controls). A great deal of testing has already been done over the years, and, of course, it needs to be pretty much thrown away with each new version of the engine. All you can really hope to achieve are finding "the best known settings under my test conditions". jm
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