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Subject: Re: Comparing both programs after halfway or 16 games

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 15:25:02 07/04/05

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On July 04, 2005 at 17:56:27, Tord Romstad wrote:

   Engine       Score   Ph          Gl                     S-B
1: Glaurung-frc 12.0/23 ········· 1011000=011001111=01001  132.00
2: Pharaon      11.0/23 0100111=100110000=10110 ·········  132.00

23 of 30 games played
Name of the tournament: Arena tournament
Site/ Country: CARLOS, United States
Level: Tournament Game in 15 Minutes
Hardware: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 1202 MHz with 255 MB Memory
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
PGN-File: C:\Program Files\Arena\Arena.pgn
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>On July 04, 2005 at 16:56:03, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>    Engine       Score  Ph            Gl                 S-B
>>1: Glaurung-frc 8.5/16  ············· 1011000=01100111   60.00
>>2: Pharaon      7.5/16  0100111=10011000 ·············   60.00
>>

>>  Engine      Score    Ph         Go                  S-B
>>1: Gothmog-frc 10.0/16 ·········· 111101=10=110010   60.00
>>2: Pharaon     6.0/16  000010=01=001101 ···········  60.00
>
>No significant difference at all, really.  The only conclusion we can
>draw from the above results is that all three engines are roughly
>in the same ballpark when playing FRC.  We can't claim that Gothmog
>is stronger than Glaurung, nor that either engine is better than
>Pharaon.
>

You are correct in reaching to that conclusion :-)

>Because of the big difference in strength at normal chess, I think it
>is very unlikely that Gothmog is really stronger than Glaurung at FRC.
>I am playing a 100 game Noomen match between my two engines
>right now, and after 52 games Glaurung is leading by a convincing
>34.5-17.5 (+26, -9, =17).  It is very possible that my experimental
>and completely untested evaluation changes in the FRC version of
>Glaurung hurt the playing strength, but I doubt that this is enough
>to make it weaker than Gothmog.
>
>Again, thanks for testing my engines!  It doesn't happen often that
>I receive FRC games or results.  :-)
>
>Tord

No problem, I was just being curious :-)

Jorge



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