Author: souche
Date: 13:10:58 02/10/00
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On February 10, 2000 at 14:22:20, Ian Osgood wrote: >On February 09, 2000 at 13:32:21, Ian Osgood wrote: > >>On February 09, 2000 at 02:09:15, O. Veli wrote: >> >>>Mr. Lang has a new version of ChessGenius for the PalmPilot on >>>http://www.chessgenius.com . Does anybody know if this program is stronger than >>>Sapphire II? >> >>Funny you should ask... :) >> >>I just downloaded ChessGenius to my Palm IIIe last night. Here are my test >>results so far. Disclaimer: this is a very small sample; hardly significant. >>Most are with Genius at 1sec/move, a restriction of the evaluation version. >>Scores are relative to Genius. >> >>Deep Green on Newton (SCP engine, 160MHz StrongARM, no permanent brain) >> 1 sec: 1 1 >> 2 sec: = = 0 0 >> 2 sec vs. Genius at 2sec through move 20: 1 1 >> >>PocketChess (SCP engine, Palm, no permanent brain) >> Level 1: 1 (blowout) >> Level 2: = >> Level 3: 1 >> >>Sapphire II (Kittinger engine, 16 MHz H8) >> 2 sec, no permanent brain: 1 >> 2 sec: = 1 >> >>Frankly, I am surprised Genius is having such good results against Sapphire II, >>which has hash tables, a much bigger book, and an engine written in assembly >>(circa 1997; the Roma engine is circa 1987). More Sapphire testing will follow >>tomorrow. >> >>Observation: Genius moves instantly some of the time, so I suspect it has some >>form of permanent brain (which can't be turned off). >> >>ChessGenius looks like a winner so far! Its interface is also quite nice and >>elegant, like Pocket Chess. No bugs found so far. >> >>Ian > >Latest Genius-Sapphire II results (2 sec/move): > 3 wins, 6 losses, 3 draws > >These are more in line with what I was expecting, given that Sapphire II thinks >on opponents time, has a bigger book, and has a hashtable. > and genius as only 1 sec/move on a palm without Afterburner ! (with afterburner my palm give a benchmark of 260 in place of 100 with all the miscellaneous options positionned, x 2,6 surely make a visible difference isn't it ?) >Ian
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