Author: Roger D Davis
Date: 15:42:14 05/15/99
I tried to run a tournament with Little Golith Gold 2 last night using the Winboard adapter in Fritz 5.32. Had no problem downloading Little Goliath and getting it to appear as an engine in Fritz, but the results were rather disappointing given what I've heard about the engine, so I'm not sure whether I did things correctly. Anyway, I rebooted by machine and set up a tournament with Junior 5, Fritz 5.32, and LGGold 2. It was "Gauntlet" tournament, since I didn't care to let Junior play Fritz. I edited the .ini file for LGGold to give it 52 megs of hash (my machine is a PII 350 with 256 megs RAM). When I started the tournament, I had to choose a hash size for all programs, so I chose 64 for Junior and Fritz, and 64 for LGGold. I don't know if this setting overrides the .ini file or not. Perhaps it does and 64 is worse than 52 (a recommended value in the read.me file). All programs used general.ctg as book. Time controls were 10 minutes per game, no increment. I watched the first two games and went to bed. In the first, Junior crushed LGGold with a sacrifice. In the second, versus Fritz, LGGold kept evaluating a drawn position as if it were a pawn ahead, while the evaluation by Fritz was 0.00. What was most disturbing, however, was that LGGold was getting 35-40K nodes per second just out of book, while Fritz and Junior were getting 250-300K nodes. I thought that since LGGold was supposed to be this tactical monster, it would search more nodes per second. Anyway, LGGold lost 10 games to Junior and drew 1 game with Fritz. Can anyone tell me if these results are accurate? Am I missing anything? Roger
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