Author: James Robertson
Date: 19:26:11 05/16/99
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On May 15, 1999 at 20:36:14, Christophe Theron wrote: >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. 40k NPS is odd because LGG generally gets NPS similar to Fritz or Junior (at least that is the standard report). James > > > 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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