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Subject: Great comments ! Thanks ! (nt)

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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