AnMon triumphant

[Steve Worboys]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Steve Worboys at 16 February 2000 06:02:41:
I have just finished running a tournament at (2 minutes/2 seconds per move) involving what are arguably the best six WB engines on my computer. The result:
AnMon 505 15.5/20 (+14 =3 -3)
Crafty 1705 12.0/20 (+10 =4 -6)
Goliath 2000 v.2 11.5/20 ( +9 =5 -6)
TCB 0045 8.5/20 ( +7 =3 -10)
SOS 6.5/20 ( +5 =3 -12)
Phalanx 22 6.0/20 ( +4 =4 -12)
Notes: Goliath started (+5 =2 -0) but, obviously, tailed off. On the other hand, TCB started off a flat (-5) but recovered nicely. SOS, as poor as its result was overall, was entertaining: two slashing wins against Crafty (one game featuring a Tal-like King-side assault, complete with a bishop sacrifice, never wise against Crafty). AnMon was superb, winning 10 of its last 11 games; I knew it was good, but the margin of victory surprises me. I have never before had a tournament winner, at any time control, other than some version of Crafty. But now, for the moment, AnMon rules the machine.

[Aaron]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Aaron at 16 February 2000 07:37:37:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: AnMon triumphant geschrieben von:/posted by: Steve Worboys at 16 February 2000 06:02:41:

I have just finished running a tournament at (2 minutes/2 seconds per move) involving what are arguably the best six WB engines on my computer. The result:
AnMon 505 15.5/20 (+14 =3 -3)
Crafty 1705 12.0/20 (+10 =4 -6)
Goliath 2000 v.2 11.5/20 ( +9 =5 -6)
TCB 0045 8.5/20 ( +7 =3 -10)
SOS 6.5/20 ( +5 =3 -12)
Phalanx 22 6.0/20 ( +4 =4 -12)
AnMon was superb, winning 10 of its last 11 games; I knew it was good,
but the margin of victory surprises me.
I have never before had a tournament winner, at any time control, other than >some version of Crafty. But now, for the moment, AnMon rules the machine.

..On my machine Anmon among all the other engines usually does best/puts up the best fight against Crafty at 5 0 most of the time..
From my point of the view the margin of victory (3.5) is not too significant. Not much you can tell from 4 game match per engine..Freak events occur..Once when i was running a single match Crafty vers Anmon, Anmon raced to a 4-0 or 5-0 win over crafty but by the 50th game Crafty was leading comfortably..
The one that I just completed was similar to yours with 6 programs except that I had Comet playing instead of SOS..and time control was 5 0..Each engines played a total of 60 games (12 games against each other program) , Crafty won quite convincing ,still I'm not sure if the results is significant..
That's why I like playing/testing Blitz you can play more games in shorter time for more accuarte results..But I must admit, testing with longer time controls tend to yield more interesting games..