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Subject: Great job Ray (nt)

Author: Graham Banks

Date: 12:17:07 04/20/05

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On April 20, 2005 at 14:56:06, Ray Banks wrote:

>Some of you will remember that I posted the results of my personality testing a
>couple of weeks ago, but I had not tested the default setting. I've now run the
>tests with the default to provide a baseline. And it is very interesting. All
>personalities are much stronger than the default, and the very best ones are
>STAGGERINGLY better
>
>My testing was as follows:
>
>Deep Fritz 8 GUI
>40 moves in 40 min repeating, 256MB Hash
>Dual Athlon MP2800+ with ponder on
>3-4-5 men EGTB
>All engines using 2004 Powerbook
>no learning
>
>Each CM9000 personality played 40 games against each of:
>Deep Shredder 8
>Deep Fritz 8
>Deep Junior 8
>Chess Tiger 15
>Hiarcs 9
>Ruffian 2.1.0
>Gandalf 6.0
>
>That is 280 games for each personality, and 2,520 games in total. The aggregate
>scores out of 280, and rankings, were:
>
>144.0 - Slayer
>141.5 - Assassin
>139.0 - R1
>139.0 - Slayer 2b
>136.5 - T05
>136.0 - Judge II
>135.0 - Minotaur 2
>130.0 - Alliance
>107.5 - Default
>
>Default's total score of 107.5 compares to 144 for Slayer. That is a massive 34%
>improvement !!
>
>Looking at it another way, 107.5/280 = 38% and 144/280 = 51%, so a 13%
>improvement in the ratio. Staggering.
>
>Slayer will now be carried across to my CM10th testing, which is on a similar
>basis to this. CM10th default will also be tested to provide a baseline in those
>tests.



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