Land of the Free - 2min + 1sec - 1K games

PawnStormZ · Post by **PawnStormZ** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 9:27 pm

7 of the top free engines, each playing 288 games against the other 6; a total of 1,008 games.

Match conditions: Core I7 920 at 2.66GHz using 4 cores HT off; Win 7 64 Home Premium; 6G RAM; no large pages; no end-game tablebases; 512 hash each.

To accomodate Komodo and Strelka, 1 core each, ponder on.

Time control is game in 2 min plus 1 second per move. The excellent "ChessGUI" is used to run the match, set to give each engine a 1/10th second "overstep" margin to help avoid any time losses.

The openings are played using random choices from the "top200.pgn" created by Sedat Canbaz as part of his "perfect_2011" opening book; each opening is played as Black and White by each engine.

PawnStormZ · Post by **PawnStormZ** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 9:48 pm

Houdini finished clear 1st; followed by critter and strelka in 2nd; stockfish in 3rd; komodo, robbolito, and ivanhoe in 4th.

The games are here... http://www.datafilehost.com/download-94d94917.html

ernest · Post by **ernest** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 11:53 pm

PawnStormZ wrote:Houdini finished clear 1st; followed by critter and strelka in 2nd; stockfish in 3rd; komodo, robbolito, and ivanhoe in 4th.

Hi Pal,

Good you used ChessGUI, Strelka ponder doesn't work under Fritz and Shredder GUIs...

By the way, I think that IvanHoe B46fC (Peterpan compile) is the better IvanHoe. Try it!

gerold · Post by **gerold** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:21 am

PawnStormZ wrote:
Houdini finished clear 1st; followed by critter and strelka in 2nd; stockfish in 3rd; komodo, robbolito, and ivanhoe in 4th.

The games are here... http://www.datafilehost.com/download-94d94917.html

Thanks for sharing Pal.

Best,
Gerold.

PawnStormZ · Post by **PawnStormZ** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:29 am

Hi Ernest.

Yes, Strelka has worked for me using ponder=on without a problem in ChessGUI.

Thanks for the IvanHoe suggestion. I am thinking of doing an "all Ivan" tourney using the 3, 4, 5 that people think may be "best". Let them prove it at the board, and end the guessing!

PawnStormZ · Post by **PawnStormZ** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:34 am

You are welcome Gerold. One thousand games are a lot to go through, but you never know what someone may find useful or interesting, even in these fast games.

Take care