Author: José Carlos
Date: 08:17:50 09/20/99
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On September 20, 1999 at 10:42:01, James Robertson wrote: >On September 20, 1999 at 09:59:23, José Carlos wrote: > >> I like to make games between engines to compute my rating list. Last night, I >>set a match (30'/game) between Tristram 4.018 and Inmichess 2.05. I know there >>are later versions, at least for Inmichess, but I want to know the relative >>strength of all versions. >> When I've looked at the results, it's been a great suprise. 18-0 for >>Tristram!!!! >> I couldn't beleive it, so I started to see the games and... Inmichess lost all >>games on time, in won or at least favourable positions. >> This should be a bug in Inmichess, probably solved in later versions, but my >>question is: should I compute the 18-0 for the rating? >> Inmichess has really lost the games, but it's not weaker than Tristram at all. >> What would you do? Compute or ignore them? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> José C. > > >I ran my program in a match with Gromit 2.2 two nights ago, and my program won >2, lost 2, and then proceeded to win the next 26 on time. Tonight I ran the >match again, and Gromit didn't lose any on time. > >Winboard sends time messages to the program (time and otim) and for some reason >stops sending them every now and then. I think it is Winboard's fault, and not >Inmichess'. Run the match again, and probably nobody will lose on time.... > >James Right before running the match, I set the Autoflag in Winboard, cause some programs continue playing after losing on time. Is possible that Winboard autoflag is not working correctly? (I downloaded the last winboard version, 4.03). José C.
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