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JJJ wrote:Maybe TC is too long ?

The problem is 4 straight hours of moves eval'd to 0.0 by both engines, which seems to occur often.

yes, the queen trap enabled the king walk, and was set off by the unfortunate 36.a5 move.

The game is still under way, but when it ends, the following link should work

http://tcec.chessdom.com/archive.php?se=8&st=3&ga=69

really a sensational king walk.

Latest update: 2015/04/01 (Sugar 5.2a. Sugar played "only" 7000 games (not against Stockfish), because Sugar should play a testrun, which is identical to a testrun of a Stockfish Dev-version (Sugar is Stockfish with some minor changes)). Sugar is now +12 Elo stronger than Stockfish 6 (and newer Sto...

GAME 44 - a disappointing early repetition. Stockfish still 9-4 up in the match. [pgn][Event "Komodo vs Stockfish"] [Site "Chess"] [Date "2015.03.29"] [Round "22.2"] [White "Stockfish 180315 x64 8CPU"] [Black "Komodo 1399.48 x64 8CPU"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [Time "14:42:41"] [TimeControl "7200+60"] [P...

52% Finally. Not bad. But I m still hoping for better. Ray: thanks so much for running another interesting tournament! Jean: Komodo seems to have many tricks that cause its search to quickly expand and consume threads, whereas SF lacks these tricks and takes longer to spin them up. This has been di...

Modern Times wrote:

fenchel wrote:

JJJ wrote:Should we call him Drawmodo ?

".48" = "anti-sf"

No, nothing exciting like that !

Thanks again, Graham & Ray, for running and posting these games.

JJJ wrote:Should we call him Drawmodo ?

".48" = "anti-sf"

game 34 Komodo wins. SF 6 - 3 in the lead. [pgn] [Event "Status Quo, Blitz 30m+15s"] [Site "test-PC"] [Date "2015.03.20"] [Round "4"] [White "Komodo 1400.00 64-bit x24"] [Black "Stockfish 170315 64 POPCNT x2"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "A84"] [Annotator "0.36;0.29"] [PlyCount "189"] [TimeControl "1800+15...

Thanks, but those versions of SF lack the recent (and significant) SMP improvements. And I think Uri is most interested in data for Threads > 16. Regarding the recent improvements, "Stockfish 6 SMP" is SF from just a few weeks ago (with Joona's main patches). Regarding what Uri said, I was highligh...