Author: Marc Lacrosse
Date: 14:36:27 06/16/05
Hello all I would like to get help and opinions regarding the design of a large all-play-all tournament that I intend to launch. The aim is to test the best free UCI and WB engines in semi-rapid conditions. GUI : Winboard + Polyglot 1.3 (furnishing a neutral book). For practical reasons, I have to split the tournament in a large series of mini-matches, each match during a bit less than 12 hours. So I thought I could use a 10/20 rate with each match being made of ten such games (a 60 moves game at 10/20 has a 60 minutes maximal duration). At first sight, I intend to invite the following free engines : - Fruit Massy 2005 - Fruit 2.0 - TogaII 0.93 - ProDeo 1.1 - Spike 0.9a - SlowChess WV blitz - Zappa 1.0 - Aristarch 4.5 - Anmon Massy 5.5.3 - List 512 UCI - Pharaon 3.2 - SOS 5.1 - Ruffian 1.05 First question : Did I miss some strong free engine ? According to what I have at home, I will also include a few commercial engines in the tournament : Surely : DeepShredder 9 UCI Shredder 7.04 UCI Chessmaster 10K Possibly : Ruffian 2.1.0 Gandalf 6.0 Deep Sjeng 1.6 Second question : are there special parameters that you consider optimal for one ar another of these engines at this kind of playing rate ? Particularly, is there a clearly superior personality for CM10 and for ProDeo in these conditions? at first sight, I intend to use Milan 2.3 or Berean 5.53 for CM 10 and default personality for ProDeo. Other conditions will be : - the neutral book will be based on strong correspondence games : we should see some quite unusual openings - 256 or 512 MB hash (I did not yet decide) - ponder off, no tablebase Most matches will be played on a Dell Inspiron 9200 (centrino2 2 Ghz) with 2048 MB ram. Some will be played on a Intel PIV 3.0 Ghz (1024 MB ram). Third question : both PCs have almost identical results at crafty 17.14 benchmark test. Is this enough to be sure that playing conditions will be quite similar ? Fouth question : Any suggestion ? Thanks all for comments Marc P.S. If you find it interesting I could post the games here...
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