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Subject: Re: Book/No-book more data from a longer run

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 17:16:31 02/21/05

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On February 21, 2005 at 19:16:31, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>On February 21, 2005 at 13:40:37, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>This is on the 2.2 GHz 64 bit computer (which had fewer problems than the slower
>>machine).  The first set is the raw data, and the second set has had all
>>duplicate games removed.
>>
>>  Program                    Elo    +   -   Games   Score   Av.Op.  Draws
>>1 Polyglot fruit-book      : 2553   31  35   372    59.9 %   2483   18.3 %
>>2 Polyglot glaurung-book   : 2540   32  35   372    57.5 %   2487   16.7 %
>>3 Polyglot glaurung-no-book: 2481   32  34   372    46.2 %   2507   16.7 %
>>4 Polyglot fruit-no-book   : 2427   40  29   372    36.3 %   2525   14.0 %
>>
>>  Program                    Elo    +   -   Games   Score   Av.Op.  Draws
>>1 Polyglot fruit-book      : 2550   32  37   348    59.3 %   2484   17.5 %
>>2 Polyglot glaurung-book   : 2536   33  35   363    56.7 %   2489   16.5 %
>>3 Polyglot glaurung-no-book: 2483   33  36   343    46.9 %   2505   16.9 %
>>4 Polyglot fruit-no-book   : 2430   41  30   354    36.9 %   2524   12.7 %
>>
>>It seems that Fruit may benefit from a book slightly more than glaurung.  At
>>least, in the case of fruit, there is now enough data to say for sure that a
>>book does help
>
>Perhaps this just means Tord's book sucks?

It probably does -- I made it.

In both cases, the exact same book was used via Polyglot.  The default book for
Glaurung was renamed so that only the special polyglot book would ever be in
use.



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