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Subject: Re: Sensational result for Toga 1.2 beta 2! Premature comment

Author: Marc Lacrosse

Date: 02:06:24 03/08/06

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On March 08, 2006 at 04:19:49, Per Jørgensen wrote:

>Hi everyone!

>I just read about a sensational result for Toga 1.2 beta 2 in the german
>chessforum CSS. I take the liberty to copy the post and bring it here:
>
>amd64 3000+
>nForce4 sli deluxe
>1gb ram
>WinXP64bit Professional
>Arena GUI
>Arena mainbook(auf 18 halbzüge begrenzt)
>Ponder on
>no EGTB
>Hashtables Rybka 146mb Toga 132mb
>
>60 partien a 5min blitz
>Rybka v1.01 Beta 13d.w32 30,5/60
>0=111101=0010010=1====1=0==011110=1110000=100==01=011=001=01
>Toga 1.2beta2 win32 29,5/60
>1=000010=1101101=0====0=1==100001=0001111=011==10=100=110=10
>
>29½-30½ against the newest Rybka beta-version is simply sensational! Perhaps
>Toga will be the first engine to challenge the current superiority of Rybka?
>

Interesting but ...

1. Why is rybka 32 bits used under winXP64 instead of the much stronger rybka 64
?
2. Why is rybka used without its own J Noomen book ?
3. (Do questions 1. and 2. mean that the tester used a pirated copy of Rybka?).
  ...this one is not really a question ... :-)
4. Should private tests of unavailable private versions be publicly commented
without anybody but a few selected persons having the opportunity to assess and
control the results ?
5. Toga 1.2 beta2 has new adjustable parameters : what were the values used for
the test ?
6. 60 blitz games is evidently a much too small test for claiming any evidence.
I heard of other tests running with an already much larger number of games where
Toga 1.2b2 is being crushed by Rybka 32 bits. I suppose this is precisely the
reason why Thomas Gaksch did not made this beta version public yet.

So let's wait a little bit.

Marc



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