Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 17:36:14 05/15/99
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On May 15, 1999 at 18:42:14, Roger D Davis wrote:
>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.
Nodes per second and tactical abilities are not related to each other. I know
it's a well spread opinion that fast searchers are good in tactics but there is
no objective/scientifical reason to think so.
Christophe
>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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