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Subject: Re: serious winboard tournament

Author: James Robertson

Date: 08:23:15 07/19/99

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On July 19, 1999 at 10:05:27, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On July 18, 1999 at 22:52:23, K1 wrote:
>
>>I have started such a site for winboard programs, strictly for fun. URL is at :
>>http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Base/5978/
>>Regards.
>
>Those old times: if we all would be still playing 40 moves in 5 minutes
>at a P75 with 32 mb RAM, so actual speed is
>a P37.5
>
>Let's calculate a little:
>
>a P133 is exactly 3 times slower for DIEP as a Pentium pro200.
>a PII450 is a little bit more than 2 times faster than a PRO200.
>
>So a PII450 is about 4 x 3 x (133/37.5) times faster = 45 times faster.
>
>Let's see: 40 moves in 300 seconds = 7.5 seconds a move.
>That's 7.5 / 45 = 0.167 seconds a move at a PII450.
>
>Gotta be a 1 ply search a move tournament...
>...and winner is a prog searching 2 ply i bet?

My program (I saw the log files) is searching 10-20k NPS on the machine,
reaching depths of about 5 or 6 in the middlegame. On my machine (P233) it
searches about 10x that fast.

James

>...hopefully you have good old genius somewhere, cuz
>it loves those tournaments...
>
>I still didn't take into account
>the small hashsize which caused huge
>swapping playing the engines against each other.
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>distinct winboard programmes + 3 older versions (#30 to #32, to make total
>number of competitors = 32)
>
>Knock out system (alphabetical order for #1 to #29! Drawn game replayed until
>winner emerged)
>Time control : 40 moves/5mins
>Hardware/OS : Toshiba Libretto, Pentium 75mHz, 32mb ram, Windows 95
>All games played using Tim Mann’s Winboard ver 4.0.2



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