Author: Bas Hamstra
Date: 08:38:29 11/01/99
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On October 31, 1999 at 23:29:36, Christophe Theron wrote: >On October 31, 1999 at 22:01:15, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On October 31, 1999 at 18:20:00, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>>On October 31, 1999 at 10:12:06, Amir Ban wrote: >>> >>>>On October 30, 1999 at 17:52:02, Christophe Theron wrote: >>>> >>>>>On October 30, 1999 at 08:22:00, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>I have played 2 matches at game/5 between Tiger 12.0 and Crafty 16.18 as an >>>>>>engine for Fritz. >>>>>> >>>>>>Crafty played on a PIII-500, 64MB hashtables, the Nalimov tablebases that come >>>>>>with Fritz and the General book of Fritz 5 built after games of 2500+ players. >>>>>> >>>>>>Tiger 12.0 played on a PII-300, 32MB hashtables and the small book of Tiger 11.7 >>>>>>with only 35000 positions. >>>>> >>>>>Oops... Not exactly. >>>>> >>>>>This book indeed comes from the first versions of Tiger 11.x but it contains >>>>>only 7682 moves. >>>>> >>>>>This is 35 times smaller than the current book provided with Tiger 12.0. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> I used this book to compensate for Crafty not using >>>>>>its own. It was not uncommon to see Tiger out of book after 2, 3 or 4 moves. I >>>>>>don't think that the book gave Tiger any kind of advantage. >>>>>> >>>>>>In the first match, Tiger won 25-13, +19 -7 =12, scoring 65.7% >>>>> >>>>>Wow! What elo rating difference would that mean? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>The second match was played under the same conditions, except that Tiger had PB >>>>>>off. In this second match, Tiger won 23-21, +16 -14 =14, scoring 52.2%. >>>>>> >>>>>>Going back to the discussion of a few weeks ago about PB on/off, these 2 matches >>>>>>seem to indicate that PB off is not more detrimental than what could be expected >>>>>>by just not using the usual 50% of the opponent's time. >>>>>> >>>>>>The delay in transmitting the moves through auto232 is almost 3 seconds/move for >>>>>>the dos driver and about 2/10 for the windows driver. Considering that the >>>>>>average in these matches is 79 moves/game, each game lasted 14 minutes instead >>>>>>of 10. Assuming that both programs guessed 50% of the opponent's moves, Tiger >>>>>>and Crafty used 9.5 minutes/game (5 + 4.5) each with PB on, while in the second >>>>>>match Tiger used 5 minutes/game. It is as if Tiger would have played the first >>>>>>match on a P300 and the second on a P150. All this mess (sorry) makes the >>>>>>results of both matches quite coherent. >>>>>> >>>>>>I tried all this PB on/off thing in a different way. Didzis plays with 2 >>>>>>programs on one machine and PB off. I replayed with 2 machines one of his games >>>>>>Tiger-CM6K and both programs played the same moves. >>>>>> >>>>>>So it seems that for some programs playing with PB off has no other effect than >>>>>>having less time to compute. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Also it seems that a crippled Tiger is still better than a full strength Crafty >>>>>(PII-300/small book against PIII-500). >>>>> >>>>>And it seems that a crippled crippled Tiger is still at least as strong as a >>>>>full strength Crafty (PII-300/PB off/small book against PIII-500). >>>>> >>>>>I find this interesting as some time ago Bob was laughing at me because I'm >>>>>still using a 386sx20 for some of my tests and algorithmic improvements. >>>>> >>>>>I would not be surprised if Chess Tiger 12.0 on PII-300 was able to stand Crafty >>>>>on a Quad-Xeon. After all that would only be a 4x speed advantage for Crafty. :) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Christophe >>>> >>>> >>>>That's approximately the speed advantage in crafty vs. ban on ICC (that is, >>>>pre-noplaying and censoring): >>>> >>>>4 x 450 MHz at 5 + 3 inc vs. 2 x 350 MHz at 5 + (-1) (that's my setting because >>>>I'm manual). If the game lasts 60 moves that translates to: >>>> >>>> >>>> (1800 MHz * 8 min) / (700 MHz * 4 min) > 5 >>>> >>>>Good luck, >>>>Amir >>> >>> >>>I'll not need a negative time increment. Tiger in the new Windows interface can >>>be directly connected to ICC. >>> >>>The Quad-xeon is 4 x 400, that is 1600MHz. >>> >>>With one processor, I have a 100% efficiency. With 4 processors Bob has 75% >>>efficiency. >>> >>>I would need a 400MHz processor to keep a 3x speed advantage in favor of Bob. I >>>have only a 300MHz computer, so I'll try with this one and we will see. >>> >>>I'll do that (if Bob allows it) after the commercial release. I'm too busy at >>>this time. >>> >>> >>> Christophe >> >> >>Crafty plays anyone. Except those with mouths a bit too big. Since Amir >>implied that I am a liar about the "crafty doesn't intentionally let its flag >>fall to be abusive to others" I choose to simply not play or chat with him at >>all on ICC. My decision. You are welcome to play. If you let me know when I >>will try to be sure the machine is not doing anything else. >> >>I am going to be in Denver from Tue nite thru Friday night, so I won't even be >>on ICC (nor here most likely). I will try to catch up Friday night... > > >I'm not going to try this immediately. I must finish the commercial version. >Anyway the commercial version is required as I can't connect my text mode engine >to ICC. What is it with you guys! Ed and you and Amir "not being able" to write a five minutes work Winboard interface??? > >I think I'll be ready for this match in 2 weeks probably. > > > > Christophe
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