Author: blass uri
Date: 22:47:20 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. 64 megs is clearly too much for 10 minutes per game. I think that program cannot use them. You can use 8 megs for Junior and Fritz because they are fast searchers when I guess that 2 megs may be enough for LGGold. usiing big hash tables only make programs like Junior and Fritz(and I think also LGgold) slower because they clear the hash tables after every move. > >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. No The opposite may be also truth. If you search too many nodes per seconds than you have not time to compute which nodes are important to search so you are weaker at tactics and it becomes more significant at longer time control. > >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 Maybe LGGold is better at slower time control but I do not know. Uri
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