Author: Matthias Gemuh
Date: 11:29:57 04/17/05
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On April 17, 2005 at 12:56:15, Olivier Deville wrote: >Here is the final result of my match between Ktulu 7.0 and The King 3.33 : > > >Match Ktulu 7.0 - The King 3.33 >40 moves in 5 minutes, 20 games > >Hardware : Athlon64 3000+, 512mb, WindowsXP Home >GUI : Arena 1.1 >Ponder off > >KTULU 7.0 : > >Big book by Denis Grafen >Hash 64 pawnhash 6 evalhash 2 >Installed as a winboard engine > >THE KING 3.33 : > >Book by Leo Dijksman >Hash 64, default settings > > Score 12345678901234567890 >---------------------------------------------------- > 1: The King 3.33 15.0 / 20 111===11=111=01=1011 > 2: Ktulu 7.0 5.0 / 20 000===00=000=10=0100 >---------------------------------------------------- >20 games: +9 =6 -5 > > >The final score is very hard on Ktulu. Let's give some comments : > >- In several winning positions, Ktulu output an error message : > >Error on performing a capture which its content is 6 and movpiece=5 > >In such cases, Arena stopped the engine and Ktulu lost on time. Winboard would >have let the game continue. This happened in games 3, 6, 8, 9, 12 and 20. Ktulu >lost a full point in all these games, except games 6 and 9 (only a half point >because the opponent was having only a King left). > >- In game 5, Ktulu was unable to win the endgame Q vs R. > >If we would give Ktulu a full point in all these games, it should have won the >match 10.5 - 9.5 ! > >As a sidenote, Arena sent a "new" command in all even games (2, 4, 6, 8 etc) >after White played its first move. This harmed the broadcast, if not the >engines. > >Ktulu is probably not the 3rd engine in the world, still it is a very promising >one. But it needs some fixing, and Arena as well. > >Olivier
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