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Subject: Re: Introducing a new Ratinglist based on 15 Openingpositions

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 11:41:45 11/29/05

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On November 29, 2005 at 14:08:16, Per Jørgensen wrote:

>Hello Chesscomputerfriends!
>
>In the last couple of Months I have been making a Ratinglist which is comparable
>to the one Klaus Wlotzka is making for the CSS. For readers who are not familiar
>with the CSS-Ratinglist I should mention that this list is based on
>enginematches of exactly 20 games. It is 10 basic openingpositions that is the
>fundament for the enginematches and each engine has got to play each
>openingposition with black and white resulting in 20 games in each match. The
>only real difference in testconditions between me and Klaus Wlotzka have been
>the Time controls: Klaus is testing with 10+10 while I have been testing with
>5+5. During my testwork I have discovered several disadvantages in testing 5+5
>and that's why I have decided to start a new way of testing which not only
>includes longer Time controls but also 5 new openingpositions:
>
>- The new Time control is 40 moves in 14 minutes repeatedly
>
>- I have kept the 10 original openingpositions but have included 5 more:

What are the 10 original opening positions?

Regards
Dave


>
>C30 = Kings Gambit (1.e4,e5 2.f4)
>
>E17 = Queenindian (1.d4,Sf6 2.c4,e6 3.Sf3,b6 4.g3,Lb7 5.Lg2,Le7)
>
>B02 = Scandinavian (1.e4,d5 2.exd5)
>
>D35 = Orthodox Queens Gambit (1.d4,d5 2.c4,e6 3.Sc3,Sf6)
>
>A57 = Modern Ben Oni (1.d4,Sf6 2.c4,c5 3.d5)
>
>I would like to thank Klaus Wlotzka for support and good advices.
>
>It's my intention to create an élite Ratinglist of 16 engines so that each
>engine has played 450 games (30 x 15) when the list is full. I'm testing on the
>following Hardware:
>
>Asus A8V Motherboard, Socket 939, FSB 1.000 MHz
>AMD Athlon 64 4000+, 2.4 GHz, 1 MB Level 2 Cache, 90 nm San Diego Core
>2 x 512 MB Corsair PC 3200XLPT RAM (CAS Latency 2-2-2-5)
>
>And here are the specific testconditions:
>
>Shredder 9 GUI
>Hash Tables for each engine: 128 MB PC 3200 Ram (CAS Latency 2-2-2-5)
>8 MB Cache for TB's
>TB's: Nalimov - 3 und 4-pieces
>Pondern OFF
>
>I have already started the new testing and here is the first result:
>
>Fritz 9 - Fruit 2.2.1  19-11 (14 wins, 10 draws and 6 defeats)
>
>A quite convincing and comfortable win for Fritz 9 although the result was worse
>than the one I got when I was testing 5+5: 14-6 meaning a score of 70% while the
>new victory was "only" 63%. Still, a very strong performance by Fritz 9. I'm
>very curious to see if the following tests will follow the pattern from my 5+5
>testing in which Fruit 2.2.1 reduced the gap to Fritz 9 by winning the next
>matches with a bigger margin than Fritz 9. We'll see.
>
>I have already started the next test which is Shredder 9. I'll post the results
>here in the CCC-Forum as soon as they are ready.
>
>Best regards
>Per Jørgensen



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