TheKing 3.50 engine ponders during opponents thinking time !

[Sedat Canbaz]

after 10 moves
I see,i am running currently tournament without book and you are running using book

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Yes ...Wael,you are rght,i have tested TheKing 3.50 x64 using 1 thread and 4 threads against Rybka 3 and noticed that the kns of of the Rybka engine were same in both cases.

So i will continue testing The King using 4 threads against mp engines

Best,
Sedat

I've played over 200 games at long time controls with The King and I've never noticed that it steals 1 cpu from the opponent....
Don't worry regards,
Dr.D

[Sedat Canbaz]

I have tested The King 3.50 at 3 different Fritz benchmarks on my old AMD 4600 and noticed when TheKing engine uses 1 cpu does not affect the speed,there is just 1.5% influence


1.Fritz benchmark where TheKing uses 1 thread:
http://sedatchess.com/fritzbench_king.jpg

2.Fritz benchmark without TheKing:
http://sedatchess.com/fritzbench_noking.jpg

3.See the speed difference when TheKing 3.50 x64 t1 is really pondering:
http://sedatchess.com/fritzbench_pondering.jpg


I think after these benchmarks we can set the threads totally for using !

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

I have tested The King 3.50 at 3 different Fritz benchmarks on my old AMD 4600 and noticed when TheKing engine uses 1 cpu does not affect the speed,there is just 1.5% influence


1.Fritz benchmark where TheKing uses 1 thread:
http://sedatchess.com/fritzbench_king.jpg

2.Fritz benchmark without TheKing:
http://sedatchess.com/fritzbench_noking.jpg

3.See the speed difference when TheKing is really pondering:
http://sedatchess.com/fritzbench_pondering.jpg


I think after these benchmarks we can set the threads totally for using !

I told you Sedat,I will not lie to my friend
Firing The King at full speed regards ,
Dr.D

[Werner]

I've played over 200 games at long time controls with The King and I've never noticed that it steals 1 cpu from the opponent....
Don't worry regards,
Dr.D

Hi Wael,
I played over 1000 games for CEGT and a had to learn that´s not sure to play eng - eng matches with the King t=2 and opponent too 2CPUs on a dual machine. Sometimes it works - sometimes not (depends on GUI and on the opponent)
I am sure I saw in some games inside taskmanager the opponent running only 50 % on my dual machine. So I decided to play such games only on the quad engine where opponent always had 2CPUs for sure...

happy testing

[vigo64]

hello!
I bought CM11 1 years ago: there is a patch to run TheKing without the tedious procedure inbetween [s], like in the old versions theking3.23/3.33?

greetings, Ciro

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

I've played over 200 games at long time controls with The King and I've never noticed that it steals 1 cpu from the opponent....
Don't worry regards,
Dr.D

Hi Wael,
I played over 1000 games for CEGT and a had to learn that´s not sure to play eng - eng matches with the King t=2 and opponent too 2CPUs on a dual machine. Sometimes it works - sometimes not (depends on GUI and on the opponent)
I am sure I saw in some games inside taskmanager the opponent running only 50 % on my dual machine. So I decided to play such games only on the quad engine where opponent always had 2CPUs for sure...

happy testing

Hi Werner,
You could be right regarding the GUI it's running under,but under the Arena GUI,I can asure you that the engine works just as it should be....
I suspect that your problems that happen from time to time in your tesing are related to the Wb2Uci adapter that you're using....I test The King 3.50 as a winboard engine,no adapters are involved,so this could be the key....
Happy testing for you too
Bye....

[Sedat Canbaz]

Hello Wael,Werner !

I have tested again The King 3.50 x 64 t2 but this time under Fritz GUI,where The King 3.50 x 64 t2(using 2cpu) engine when uses 1 cpu during opponent time also does not affect the speed,there was again approx. 1 % influence

1.The King 3.50 x 64 t2 during opponent time :
http://sedatchess.com/fritzbench_king1.jpg

Btw,its intreresting to note,the Fritz benchmark under Arena is scored with higher kns than under Fritz GUI:

1.Fritz Benchmark when Arena GUI is opened:
http://sedatchess.com/Fritzbench_ArenaGUI.jpg

2.Fritz Benchmark when Fritz GUI is opened:
http://sedatchess.com/Fritzbench_FritzGUI.jpg

In other words...TheKing 3.50's threads can be set to maximum

Regards,
Sedat

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Thanks for the confirmation Sedat
I told you so regards,
Dr.D