Author: Heinz van Kempen
Date: 03:48:31 07/18/05
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On July 18, 2005 at 06:06:21, Joachim Rang wrote: >On July 17, 2005 at 16:03:53, Graham Banks wrote: > >>The work done by all AEGT and CEGT testers to produce that fantastic rating list >>is absolutely invaluable and very much appreciated. >> >>Graham. > >I second that. I really like CEGT. > >regards Joachim Hi Joachim, thanks. Just a few points concerning critics. Ponder on and own books or general book or Nunn/Noomen positions are things where we have a lot of experienced testers with different opinions. The advantages and disadvantages are known and I do not repeat them here. Different namens for engines: Well from all databases I am getting daily I give downloads and sometimes I am to lazy to rename something like Ruffian 2.10 to Ruffian 2.1.0, etc. In the big database for rating calculation I am having, those are of course given one unified name, here Ruffian 2.1.0 Shredder 9 native engine and Shredder 9 UCI we are mixing as testers have different ones. We could not detect differences in speed here. Ktulu 7.0a is only a bugfix for Ktulu 7.0 and seemingly does not affect playing strength, so the versions are combined. Time controls: adapted via Crafty benchmark to 2 Ghz P4 CPU, admittedly not the fsstest, but you will see many tournaments with slower hardware, so it is still more or less standard. With technical progress and more testers we should adapt time controls to faster hardware. For the moment those with faster Athlon64 are enjoying that they only have to give 40/18 repeated. Different time controls in headers: there were a few tournaments in AEGT Bishop and Knight Class where we experimented with a time control 30 minutes + 15 seconds to avoid this longlasting games with repeated time controls (we often have games with 150 moves and more). But when we saw that engines had problems with this, we voted to cling to the x moves in y repeated. Fritz GUI: hated by some Winboard fans and other people. Buggy for many years. Problems are fixed with newer UCI.dll, also the 1MB bug. Believe it or not this GUI is not worse than others and we can´t run engines like Hiarcs, Chess Tiger, Junior, Fritz and Anaconda in other GUI´s. Whenever it is possible we have still some Arena fans who are more acquainted with that one. Every tournament, even SSDF has weaknesses, the perfect tournament will never exist. Anyway testing in groups is fun, there is a lot of advice and help from others and interesting exchange of opinions. Best Regards Heinz
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