Material & Hardware Imbalance

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Material & Hardware Imbalance

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Do new hardware and more processing power compensate vs old hardware, in case played from worse position.

Old hardware is equipped with last SF Dev and 5-men Syzygy. New hardware is equipped with Houdini 5.01 Pro and 6-men Syzygy. 2-core vs 8-core.

TC: 45m+15s + Ponder.

I will post some results played from listed positions:

[d]rn1q1r2/p1p1ppkp/1p4p1/8/2BP4/2N2N2/PP3PPP/R1B1K2R w KQ - 0 1

[d]r7/pp2rk1Q/1npb4/8/2pP2R1/7P/PP3P2/2K5 b - - 0 2

[d]4k3/1p4bp/r1n1p1p1/3p4/p2P4/4B3/PP3PPP/2RR1K2 b - - 0 0
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Re: Material & Hardware Imbalance

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White: Pentium Processor E5200 | Stock speed

Black: i7-5960X Processor Extreme Edition | 4.1GHz

TC: 45+15 | Ponder | ~ 2 hours playtime.

[pgn][Event "EXPERT-PC, Rapid 45m+15s"]
[Site "EXPERT-PC"]
[Date "2017.03.10"]
[Round "1"]
[White "asmFishW_2017-03-09_base"]
[Black "Houdini 5.01 Pro x64-pext"]
[Result "1-0"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "4k3/1p4bp/r1n1p1p1/3p4/p2P4/4B3/PP3PPP/2RR1K2 b - - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "108"]

1... h5 2. Rd3 Bf6 3. g3 g5 4. b3 Kf7 5. bxa4 Rxa4 6. Rb1 Nd8 7. a3 Ra7 8. Rb5
Nc6 9. Rdb3 Na5 10. R3b4 Bd8 11. h3 Kg6 12. Ra4 b6 13. Rb1 Kf5 14. Ke2 Ra8 15.
Rc1 g4 16. h4 Kg6 17. Rb1 Rc8 18. Kd3 Ra8 19. Rb2 Kf5 20. Bf4 Kg6 21. Rb1 Kf7
22. Rc1 Ke8 23. Bg5 Kd7 24. Bxd8 Rxd8 25. Ke2 Kd6 26. Rb1 Kc7 27. Kf1 Rh8 28.
Kg2 Re8 29. Rc1+ Kb7 30. Rb4 Nc4 31. Re1 Kc7 32. Re2 Kc6 33. Rb3 Kd6 34. f3 Rg8
35. a4 Ke7 36. Rf2 gxf3+ 37. Rbxf3 Nd6 38. Rb2 Ra8 39. Rb4 Nf5 40. Ra3 Ra6 41.
Kf3 Kf6 42. Rc3 Ra7 43. Rc6 Rg7 44. Kf2 Rg8 45. Rbxb6 Nxd4 46. Rc5 Ke5 47. a5
Rf8+ 48. Ke1 Rf3 49. a6 Ra3 50. Rc7 Ke4 51. Kd2 e5 52. a7 Ra2+ 53. Kc1 Ne2+ 54.
Kb1 Ra4 55. Rb8 1-0

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Re: Material & Hardware Imbalance

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CPU: Intel Pentium E5200 @ 2.50GHz

Komodo 10.4 | Default settings applied

Houdini 4 Pro | Default, except contempt 0

[pgn][Event "Old-Desktop Computer, Slow 60m+30s"]
[Site "Old-Desktop Computer"]
[Date "2017.03.15"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Komodo 10.4 64-bit"]
[Black "Houdini 4 Pro x64"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "1rbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/1NBQKBNR w Kk - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "100"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. dxc5 Qc7 5. Bd3 Bxc5 6. Qh5 Bd7 7. Nf3 Qa5+ 8.
Nbd2 g6 9. Qh4 Qa4 10. Qg3 h5 11. Nb3 Bb6 12. h3 Rc8 13. Qf4 Qxf4 14. Bxf4 Ne7
15. c3 a6 16. Bg5 Ba4 17. Nbd4 Bd8 18. Bf6 O-O 19. Kd2 Nc6 20. Re1 Nb8 21. g4
Bxf6 22. exf6 Nd7 23. g5 Rfe8 24. Ne5 Nxe5 25. Rxe5 Red8 26. f4 Rd6 27. Re2 Be8
28. Ke3 Rb6 29. Rd2 Bd7 30. Nf3 Bb5 31. Bb1 Bc4 32. Kd4 a5 33. Ne5 a4 34. a3
Rc7 35. h4 Kh7 36. Bc2 Ra6 37. Rf2 Ra8 38. Rd2 Ra5 39. Ke3 b5 40. Rd4 Ra8 41.
Rd2 Rf8 42. Kd4 Rb8 43. Ke3 Rbc8 44. Kd4 Rd8 45. Ke3 Ra8 46. Kd4 Re8 47. Bb1
Rb8 48. Rh2 Ra8 49. Bc2 Bb3 50. Bd3 Rb8 1/2-1/2

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