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Subject: Re: Attn Eelco

Author: Eelco de Groot

Date: 12:52:58 07/24/05

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On July 24, 2005 at 11:41:00, Dom Leste wrote:

>Hi Eelco
>
>I did the SwissTest2 Test with Vulcan & Dredd and got some very interesting
>results. As u know the Swisstest2 are avoid positions which is probably a good
>test for the Up & Down.eng
>
>64 positions at 30seconds per move.
>
>Dredd 36/64
>Vulcan 32/64
>
>But the winner is.... drumroll
>
>Vulcan with (default pruning!!) 37/64
>
>I have to restart my test against fruit lookslike the result is worse against
>fruit! I tried changing things with selective search=100 and got 42.5% against
>fruit 2.1 in the Nunn test.
>
>Now i have to test it with Selective search=80
>
>Dom

Hi Dom,

That looks very interesting! To be honest, I did not know about the SwissTest..
Thanks to Google, I found a link to it here

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/lefouduroi/tournois/uci/swt2_rating.htm
http://www.beepworld.de/members38/eigenmann/swisstest.htm

English, French, German, computer chess is good for your language skills!

But Dom what exactly is Vulcan with default pruning? Could you maybe post those
settings? I think it is a good idea to do testing with "avoid this
move"-positions. There are so many tests for combinations and sacrifices, and
often you have to start tuning in the opposite direction, because your engine or
programs thinks it is Santa on the chess board.. Vulcan is probably no
exception... So I am very curious what settings may be in Vulcan with
other/default pruning!

37/64 =  57,8%, that would put it in the top 6 on Walter Eigenmann's site! But
I'm not sure how much time you gave the engine for each position, on the site
that was 60 seconds on a P IV. Dredd scored also very good.

Does the UP.ENG or DOWN.ENG work now, Dom?

 Pro Deo regards,

 Eelco






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