Stockfish 240114 - Houdini 4 Pro Live Testing @ 5m+3s

[mwyoung]

Stockfish 240114 - Houdini 4 Pro Live Testing @ 5m+3s.

CPU: i7 840
Time Control 5m+3s
Houdini 4 Pro set to default 4 cores.
Stockfish 240114 set to default 4 cores.
Hash=2048.
Opening Book: 2500+ elo book, 8 move limit.
6 man endgame tables on SSD.

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[mohzus]

Very nice Mark, thanks a lot for this!
I have a question though, with stockfish it seems that you get around 2.3 Mnps in the early game. Is this correct? It seems rather low to me although I don't own a quad core so I'm not really used to that number.

[Graham Banks]

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Nice initiative, Mark.

[ernest]

It seems rather low to me .

I think he is using a notebook, so GHz are probably low too.

[mwyoung]

Very nice Mark, thanks a lot for this!
I have a question though, with stockfish it seems that you get around 2.3 Mnps in the early game. Is this correct? It seems rather low to me although I don't own a quad core so I'm not really used to that number.

My testing rig runs is getting old in processor terms. It will be 4 years old in Q3 2014, I will be updating this year. Using 4 to 8 threads the cpu runs at 2.1Ghz. Using 1 thread the CPU runs at 3.2Ghz. Here are the specs.

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Status  EOIS 
Launch Date  Q3'10 
Processor Number  i7-840QM 
# of Cores  4 
# of Threads  8 
Clock Speed  1.86 GHz 
Max Turbo Frequency  3.2 GHz 
Intel® Smart Cache  8 MB 
DMI  2.5 GT/s 
Instruction Set  64-bit 
Instruction Set Extensions  SSE4.2 
Embedded Options Available 
  
 No 
Lithography  45 nm 
Max TDP  45 W 

[Gusev]

Mark, how do you set things up to broadcast live on YouTube? Is this Deep Fritz 14?..

[mwyoung]

Mark, how do you set things up to broadcast live on YouTube? Is this Deep Fritz 14?..

Yes it is The Houdini 4 GUI. Same GUI as DF 14 GUI.

How to do a live boardcast.

1. Setup a You Tube account.
2. You have to have enough subscribers on your account and/or be in good standing with You Tube.
3. Enable the settings in your You Tube accounts settings.
4. Watch the how to videos....Optional
5. Everything else is free from You tube (live encoder software).

This is my first live broadcast. So I don't know how long I can stay live. I will see what You Tube will let me do in this regard.

[mwyoung]

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Nice initiative, Mark.

Thank you.

[mohzus]

Thank you Mark for the specification of your hardware. If you're interested, I have an Intel duo core E6300 (from 2006) at 1.86 Ghz (same frequency than you!). I get around 1.35 Mnps in the early game.
I see that you restarted the tournament. Is there a way you could display the results before Houdini started to "crash"?
Thanks again.

[mwyoung]

Thank you Mark for the specification of your hardware. If you're interested, I have an Intel duo core E6300 (from 2006) at 1.86 Ghz (same frequency than you!). I get around 1.35 Mnps in the early game.
I see that you restarted the tournament. Is there a way you could display the results before Houdini started to "crash"?
Thanks again.

I have no way to show the game on the broadcast. But the games in the database. I will post the results after this first test.

Right now Stockfish is winning +8 =15 -4 +52 TPR. You can add 3 more wins to stockfish before the crash.

Right now stockfish is dominating Houdini 4.