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Subject: Re: testing with unequal time control

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 03:06:19 01/25/06

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On January 25, 2006 at 06:01:18, Uri Blass wrote:

>I wonder if people tried to use arena to test rybka with reduced strength and if
>arena works without bugs with that feature.
>
>testing it with movei suggest that arena1.1 can steal significant time from
>engines and it may be the reason for the strange results in 1+1 under arena that
>I read here(I found that more than 0.5 second was stolen from movei after
>playing the first move and similiar situation for other moves).
>
>I wonder if there is a good interface that cause no problems for testing with
>unequal time control because it seems that arena may be good only for slow time
>control in the best case and testing movei with 40 minutes/40 moves against
>rybka with 4 minutes/40 moves can take a long time.
>
>Uri


I like your message although I wont answer it. The message proves to me that you
are still a brilliant example for independent thinker, Uri! Thanks for that one.



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