Komodo 5 release now available!

[gleperlier]

Thank you Don, for the release!

I've started a new series of testing quite similar to my former "Clash of the Titans" match at longer TCs:

Komodo vs.
- Houdini: http://www.team-oh.de/livegames2/
- Stockfish: http://www.team-oh.de/livegames3/
- Critter: http://www.team-oh.de/livegames4/
- Rybka: http://www.team-oh.de/livegames5/

All engines use 1 core (AMD Phenom II @ 3GHz), 512MB Hash, 120m+3s, Ponder=On, 30 Openings (Noomen Test Suite 2012) have to be played with both colors.

Let's see how the new Komodo 5 fights the others compared to my first test: http://www.team-oh.de/Computerschach/Clash.htm

Best regards
Timo

P.S.: I know that the test sample is of no statistical relevance (only 4 x 60 games), but it should give us a first glance of how Komodo 5 behaves at longer TCs against top opponents.

Very nice time control

Looking forward the results !

Gab

[Jesse Gersenson]

Komodo 5 is available at this page:
http://komodochess.com/komodo5-30a

The page now mentions that 32-bit will be available in the next week or so.

Don, )just get a machine up and haven't read my email for days...) forward me a customer email which includes headers, if possible. Otherwise, forward me just a customer email which includes the automatic email you're sending out. I'd like to take a look and see if I see any obvious reason it's getting flagged as spam.

[Strelkaman]

Whats the point of Komodo 5 release??Its worst than Houdini.Whats the big deal here?

[WuShock]

K5 doing well in my tests so far.

@ 1+1 , 198 games so far , K5 is ahead of Houdini 2.0c :

+69 , -46 , =83


running 300 games

Tom

[Desperado]

Whats the point of Komodo 5 release??Its worst than Houdini.Whats the big deal here?

What is the point of your post ?? It is worse than meaningless.
What is the big deal with your post

[Dan Honeycutt]

Whats the point of Komodo 5 release??Its worst than Houdini.Whats the big deal here?

What is the point of your post ?? It is worse than meaningless.
What is the big deal with your post

Hi Michael,

By inclusion of the smiley I assume he was kidding. Nobody could be that idiotic.

Could they?

Best
Dan H.

[gleperlier]

Whats the point of Komodo 5 release??Its worst than Houdini.Whats the big deal here?

What is the point of your post ?? It is worse than meaningless.
What is the big deal with your post

Hi Michael,

By inclusion of the smiley I assume he was kidding. Nobody could be that idiotic.

Could they?

Best
Dan H.

You are right, he can't be

[Uri Blass]

While I don't expect that we will pass Houdini 2 on the blitz lists, I do have high hopes that we will do so on the intermediate level lists. I should also mention that although we have added automatic SSE4 detection, it appears to make an even larger difference with K5 than with K4; we really benefit from the newer processors.

The problem in the non blitz lists is houdini1.5a

From the CCRL 40/40 rating list:

Houdini 1.5a 64-bit 3156 +17 −17 64.1% −93.3 42.4%
Houdini 2.0c 64-bit 3144 +16 −16 67.3% −121.8 36.2%
Komodo 4 64-bit 3118 +12 −11 57.9% −53.5 47.9%

30 elo at long time control may be enough to be above Houdini2c but not above Houdini1.5a

[Don]

While I don't expect that we will pass Houdini 2 on the blitz lists, I do have high hopes that we will do so on the intermediate level lists. I should also mention that although we have added automatic SSE4 detection, it appears to make an even larger difference with K5 than with K4; we really benefit from the newer processors.

The problem in the non blitz lists is houdini1.5a

From the CCRL 40/40 rating list:

Houdini 1.5a 64-bit 3156 +17 −17 64.1% −93.3 42.4%
Houdini 2.0c 64-bit 3144 +16 −16 67.3% −121.8 36.2%
Komodo 4 64-bit 3118 +12 −11 57.9% −53.5 47.9%

30 elo at long time control may be enough to be above Houdini2c but not above Houdini1.5a

That's right, our observation is the same as yours, that Houdini 1.5 is a tougher opponent at long time controls.

[lkaufman]

Testing Komodo at 1'+0'' against Houdini i keep on experiencing a lot of time losses. I thought it was only a problem in 10 seconds per game but it isn't.

I know that generally sudden death games are not considered too much when the time control is relatively short but i wonder if would't it good a fix about that.

Thank you

Best Regards

Try increasing the move overhead milliseconds. The proper setting for this depends on the interface you use. If you find a setting that avoids time forfeits at 1', let us know the setting and the interface used. We did not notice any time forfeits at game/3', but 1' is different.