💡📝Sam Trenholme wrote on Tue, Sep 29, 2009 10:18 AM EDT:
OK, I've been working on seeing how quickly I can get Joker80 to pump out games on my system. At 40 moves in 1 second, only about 10% of games are finished (end in a Checkmate or draw by repetition). That number shoots up to 50% for 40 moves in 2 seconds, 75% for 40 moves in 3 seconds, and stabilizes to around 90% by 40 moves in 4 seconds (it's still around 90% at 40 moves in 10 seconds; we only get up to a 100% yield when we play 40 moves in 60 seconds).
So, I started my computer making a bunch of 40-moves-in-4-second games last night. There's another issue: About once every 1,000 games, Joker80 crashes, and this stops WinBoard from generating games unattended. I'll see if removing the offending pop-up from WinBoard allows Winboard to restart and continue making games when Joker80 crashes. It may also be necessary to suppress the 'send bug report to Microsoft' window.
The nice thing about games this quickly is that I already have +/- 2% numbers for White's wins with the 1. e4 f5 2. exf5 Nb6 Schoolbook opening:
Win: 45.3718% Loss: 42.868% draw 11.7602% score 51.2519% Total 1318
(Win: Number of White wins. Loss: Number of White losses. Draw: Number of draws. Score: White wins + draws/2 Total: Number of games played)
Compare this to the +/- 5% numbers I got from 100 40-moves-in-60-second games for the same Schoolbook opening yesterday:
So, I started my computer making a bunch of 40-moves-in-4-second games last night. There's another issue: About once every 1,000 games, Joker80 crashes, and this stops WinBoard from generating games unattended. I'll see if removing the offending pop-up from WinBoard allows Winboard to restart and continue making games when Joker80 crashes. It may also be necessary to suppress the 'send bug report to Microsoft' window.
The nice thing about games this quickly is that I already have +/- 2% numbers for White's wins with the 1. e4 f5 2. exf5 Nb6 Schoolbook opening:
Win: 45.3718% Loss: 42.868% draw 11.7602% score 51.2519% Total 1318
(Win: Number of White wins. Loss: Number of White losses. Draw: Number of draws. Score: White wins + draws/2 Total: Number of games played)
Compare this to the +/- 5% numbers I got from 100 40-moves-in-60-second games for the same Schoolbook opening yesterday:
Win: 46% Loss: 45% draw 9% score 50.5% Total 100
As we can see, the numbers are almost the same.