Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 16:00:58 02/03/00
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On February 03, 2000 at 17:42:59, Chessfun wrote:
>On February 03, 2000 at 14:43:13, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>Yesterday I played Rebel Tiger vs Fritz 5.32 some Bullet/blitz games to try to
>>get a feel for which is stronger. I admit my format is a little strange but the
>>results were interesting to me anyway. I only have a PII-333 and a K6-3-450 so
>>I have to swap the programs for half of the games to be fair. This time I tried
>>something a little different. I gave the program on the PII-333 3 min/game
>>while I gave the program on the k6-450 only 2 min/game. The first 110 games
>>Tiger had the K6-3-450 and Fritz 5.32 had the PII-333. The score of the first
>>110 games was 60-50 favor Tiger. Of course I changed computers and tried again
>>for another 110 games. The second score was 59.5-50.5 favor Fritz 5.32. So the
>>totals were Chess-Tiger 110.5 to Fritz 5.32 109.5. I doubt if anyone wants to
>>see the 220 games. One more thing, I played Fritz 5.32 without access to it's
>>endgame CD. I thought it interesting that 50% more time failed to compensate
>>for the 35% speed advantage. Maybe not enough games?
>>Anyone care to comment?
>>Jim Walker
>
>Hi Jim.
> You should try this with H732. I once let it and F532 play
>1600, one minute games. H732 scored over 1300 !!.
>I wasn't proud to admit I run these types of games so I never
>posted the result. It was just after someone here made a statement
>on playing 1000 one minute games between these two programs.
>
>Let H732 try the Tiger....I would be interested in those results.
>
>Thanks.
Yes, it's interesting.
However, as time controls get faster and faster you must take special care about
GUI issues.
The Rebel-Tiger GUI, like any GUI, eats a little bit of time on every move. The
time is used to update the graphical board, update the toolbars, the clocks,
send an optional sound, and so on.
If it is possible you should disable as many features of the GUI as possible. In
Rebel-Tiger, that means:
* turning sounds OFF
* closing all the windows (leave only the chessboard)
* close all the toolbars
* maximize the program
* set the engine to high priority
* don't give too much hash tables. In 3mn/game, 4Mb is enough. In 1mn/game, 1Mb
is enough.
And: don't move the mouse during the games (every time the mouse moves, a lot of
messages are sent by the Windows system, this takes a lot of time).
In your experiment Hiarcs against Fritz, are you sure the GUI did not handicap
Fritz? Didn't you give too much hash tables? In very fast games, just 1 tenth of
second lost per move is a killer.
Christophe
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