Author: Georg v. Zimmermann
Date: 05:38:03 12/16/99
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On December 15, 1999 at 22:02:15, brian robson wrote: >Successfully installed all available free winboard engines except: >SOS, Dragon, Lchop and Newrival. All the engines are able to use their own >opening books except fortress, anmon and zchess. Currently running an automatic >tourney of all the engines plus fritz6 fritz 5.32 and hiarc7.32.This is a great >feature of Fritz GUI. You can just sleep off while allowing the tourney to >continue on his own. I hope you realize that the fritz winboard adapter is seriously flawed. 1.) The engines do not know how much time they have left. Image you as a human play a game where you know that you have average 10mins/10moves while your opponent knows the exact time control: 60mins/game. You would play too fast in the midlegame and loose on time in the endgame ... thats what happenes. 2.) A lot of engines loose all the hashtable-data because fritz sends the "new" command + the whole game before every new move. 3.) This does stop the learning feature of many engines as well. 4.) opening books are important for some engines, especially fortress for example. 5.) You sure that Fritz and friends get the same amount of HT than the other engines ? I'm not. ... and other things I probably forgot. > Imagine if winboard were to have this feature!!!! Why don't you run a few games between 2 engines while at sleep (if you only want to play 1-3 games between every engine your result isn't gonna be very reliable anyway ;-) ) and then set it up for the next two engines.... there goes your RoundRobin tourney... >Have a nice day. You too! Georg
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