Author: Albrecht Heeffer
Date: 07:45:51 01/29/99
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On January 29, 1999 at 09:23:15, G.Mueller wrote: >On January 29, 1999 at 08:28:26, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 29, 1999 at 02:31:21, Albrecht Heeffer wrote: >> >>>On January 28, 1999 at 15:56:40, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>note that some of the positions end up in tablebases. I don't know what they >>>>used, but I used none, because of the format change from 15.20 to 16.0. As a >>>>result, I ran with no tablebase hits possible... >>> >>>We did use the old tablebases (72). In the log files you can see the probes. >>>In fact we probably saved the Kallisto game from a draw by the tablesbases. >>>The endgame was was winning but Bionic did not play the best moves until >>>suddenly: >>> >>> 13 6.31 fhigh Kd6!! >>> 13-> 7.20 6.62 Kd6 >>> 14 7.58 fhigh Kd6!! >>> 14-> 13.08 7.01 Kd6 >>> 15 13.26 fhigh Kd6!! >>> 15 17.08 Mat28 Kd6 Kg7 Ke6 f5 Bf3 Kh6 Kf6 Kh7 Bc6 >>> Kh6 Bd7 <HT> >>> time=23.65 cpu=196% mat=2 n=9446180 fh=98% nps=399415 >>> ext-> checks=236796 recaps=13251 pawns=234693 1rep=184173 >>> predicted=37 nodes=9446180 evals=3370257 >>> endgame tablebase-> probes done=137165 successful=137159 >>> hashing-> trans/ref=111% pawn=99% used=w29% b37% >>> SMP-> split=2503 stop=80 data=8/64 cpu=46.52 elap=23.65 >>> >>>mate in 28 moves. >>> >>>>If someone has a PII/400 they can run on, I can run crafty on one processor at >>>>1 minute per position, and they could run bionic the same way. A PII/400 and >>>>my xeon/400 are close to the same speed. that would be the best comparison >>>>unless one person wants to run both bionic _and_ wcrafty_15.20.exe (from my >>>>ftp site) on the same box, which would be even better... >>>> >>>>I'd much prefer that to eliminate all variables. the SMP code produces some >>>>odd results at times, and my linux version is 15% slower than the corresponding >>>>windows executable due to MSVC being a better compiler. All in all, too many >>>>different things... >>> >>>The results so far do not seem to indicate that Crafty 15.20 plays all >>>the same moves as the Bionic games in the Dutch Open. I'm still wondering >>>how you were able to reproduce all the right moves in three games with >>>Crafty 16.1 on your hardware. Did you use SMP then? >>> >>>Albrecht Heeffer >> >> >>No. What I did was search for 10 minutes per position, and if the >>programs matched after a minute or more, I counted it as a match. I >>then looked at the very few where they didn't match. In a couple of >>cases there were simple transpositions that evaluated to the same score >>and pre-processing could affect that by changing the root move order. >>If crafty's move and bionic's move had the same score, and roughly the >>same PV I counted those as matches. Finally, in a couple of cases it >>was obvious that they had the same idea, just different ways to reach >>that... The pv's were similar but in different order (notably in a >>couple of endgame positions where there were no real tactics to consider.) >> >>But notice that 'bionic' is not matching 'bionic-tournament' very well, >>when you think about it. The web site version matched 77% of the moves, >>while version 15.20 matched 74%. Everyone else is well back from that. >>And I was searching faster than the bionic in the tournament, and the >>one tested here, which is why I suggested someone run 15.20 and bionic >>on the _same_ hardware and do this test. That would be better... >Hello Bob! > >You are right I do remark same on my single Xeon overclockt to 504 Mhz with 1MB >2.level Cache, the downloadable bionic is never the same version that played in >Dutch Championchip, it matches about 80%, Crafty 16.1 in about 75%, do not test >with TB. A download from the originally Dutchversion would be very nice to >answer all this difficult questions. >In Dualuse (i test on a Quadxeon with mt=2) Bionic seems evident fast as Crafty >16.1 on single it is slower. But a Quadmachine is not really good for testing a >dual machine I know, but bionic is compiled with two CPUS. > >Best wishes to you Bob! >G.Mueller After the tournament I burned a CD-R with the complete directory image of all sources, executables and log files. The version on the website 'bionic41.exe' is ftp'd directly from the CD onto the web site. It _is_ the same version as used during both weekends of the tournament, I can assure you. The SMP code must be very indeterministic if we can't reproduce the moves somehow. Albrecht Heeffer
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