Updates

[Sergio Martinez]

FluxII 0.9:

http://fluxchess.nonava.com/


OBender 2.11:

http://www.sdchess.ru/download_engines.htm

[Graham Banks]

Thanks Sergio!

[Volker Pittlik]

Thanks Sergio!

From my side too.

I found no indications that the new version of Flux is weaker.

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Computer chess game
vpittlik, 2007.05.24
                        Score     Fl Fl Bu BB Ar Na Al pr Gr Me Ho
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 1: Flux-0.9          13.5 / 20   XX 11 00 01 10 10 =1 1= 1= 11 11
 2: Flux-0.8           6.0 / 20   00 XX 00 00 00 =0 00 0= 01 11 11
 3: Buzz May  8 2007   4.0 /  4   11 11 XX .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
 4: BBChess 1.10       3.0 /  4   10 11 .. XX .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
 5: Arasan 9.5         3.0 /  4   01 11 .. .. XX .. .. .. .. .. ..
 6: Natwarlal v0.14    2.5 /  4   01 =1 .. .. .. XX .. .. .. .. ..
 7: Alf v1.08          2.5 /  4   =0 11 .. .. .. .. XX .. .. .. ..
 8: prophet_2          2.0 /  4   0= 1= .. .. .. .. .. XX .. .. ..
 9: GreKo 5.3          1.5 /  4   0= 10 .. .. .. .. .. .. XX .. ..
10: Mediocre v0.32     0.0 /  4   00 00 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. XX ..
11: HoiChess 0.9.0     0.0 /  4   00 00 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. XX
-------------------------------------------------------------------
38 games: +17 =5 -16



Test contitions

Processor: Intel Core2Duo E6300
OS: Linux 2.6.18.8-0.3 SMP i686 (SuSE 10.2, 32 bit)
Xboard: 4.2.7
Polyglot: 1.4
Time control: 60 seconds initially + 1 second per move
Ponder: on
Learning: off
Hash: Approximately 32 MB if adjustable else defaults, swapping not tolerated
Books: Own books if available, else self created generic books, no manual tuning
TBs: and other endgame stuff up tp 4 pieces in RAM disks
RAM: 1 GB
Java: java version "1.6.0" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b105)

Volker

[Tony Thomas]

Wow, that is a big improvement, even considering most statistical possibilities.

[Volker Pittlik]

Wow, that is a big improvement, even considering most statistical possibilities.

And it really seems to be there:

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Computer chess game
vpittlik, 2007.05.24
                        Score          1      2      3      4      5      6      7      8      9     10     11
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 1: Flux-0.9          34.0 / 54   XXXXXX ...... 010010 101010 10010= 000111 =11011 1==10= 1=0111 111110 111111
 2: Flux-0.8          18.5 / 54   ...... XXXXXX 001000 000000 =00010 000100 000010 0100=1 0=1110 110=01 1110=1
 3: BBChess 1.10       9.0 / 12   101101 110111 XXXXXX ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ......
 4: Arasan 9.5         9.0 / 12   010101 111111 ...... XXXXXX ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ......
 5: Natwarlal v0.14    8.0 / 12   01101= =11101 ...... ...... XXXXXX ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ......
 6: Buzz May  8 2007   8.0 / 12   111000 111011 ...... ...... ...... XXXXXX ...... ...... ...... ...... ......
 7: Alf v1.08          6.5 / 12   =00100 111101 ...... ...... ...... ...... XXXXXX ...... ...... ...... ......
 8: GreKo 5.3          6.0 / 12   0==01= 1011=0 ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... XXXXXX ...... ...... ......
 9: prophet_2          4.0 / 12   0=1000 1=0001 ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... XXXXXX ...... ......
10: Mediocre v0.32     3.5 / 12   000001 001=10 ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... XXXXXX ......
11: HoiChess 0.9.0     1.5 / 12   000000 0001=0 ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... XXXXXX
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108 games: +51 =11 -46


Other conditions unchanged. BayesElo says this are 220 rating points but the error bars are still big of course.


Volker