Author: Madhavan
Date: 15:12:55 06/16/05
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On June 16, 2005 at 17:36:27, Marc Lacrosse wrote: >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. Great! >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 ? yes,Yace and Crafty. but they are less weaker 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 you can use Shredder 9 instead which perform quite better than eep version which is designed for multi processor. >Possibly : >Ruffian 2.1.0 >Gandalf 6.0 >Deep Sjeng 1.6 If you are going to use Ruffian 2.1.0,then It's better to remove Ruffian 1.05 from the test.the free engine will not show any surprising result as it is old and outdated. >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. Maybe you should ask Graham before selecting any chessmaster personality. >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 what opening book do you use for List and Fruit? >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 ? yes. >Fouth question : >Any suggestion ? I'd like to see the AXON bench mark result of the first hardware.Axon benchmark is available for free and can be downloaded here:www.playwitharena.com under download section. >Thanks all for comments > >Marc > >P.S. >If you find it interesting I could post the games here... Thanks.
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