Hello Chess Friends,
As usual, I am pleased to announce that ,Here are new Duel series of Book vs ExperienceBtw, for previous played results: Duel I / Duel II
1st of all,
I have managed to organize two kind of Duel competitions:
1st Duel Conditions: 2 Core/Game, 2m+1s, 128 MB Hash
All books are played by SF- PB 090223 (NNUE Enabled)
2nd Duel's Conditions: 6 Core/Game, 2m+1s, 512 MB Hash
Where all books played by CF-EXT 291120 (NON-NNUE)
And to be more clear,
RapTora's Experience played by Raptora 2.2 engine
Note also that Raptora 2.2 is played without any book
And in 1st Duel, Raptora is played as NNUE enabled
Sure in 2nd Duel, Raptora played as NNUE disabled
Plus in 2nd Duel, (to not effect the results),
A new fresh Raptora. exp is replaced/installed
And as we see (as NNUE enabled),
RapTora 2.2's Experience file is managed to win!
Where as NON-NNUE, Winner is Opening Book!
As a conclusion I can say, it seems
Exp. file performs better via NNUE assistance!
And meanwhile, according to Mr. Antonio Escobedo,
His RapTora 2.2 engine is trained to play vs books...
And after checking some of the games..it's clear that
RapTora's 1st moves are automatic, mainly up to 5-7 moves
But in some games, RapTora is going even deeper in lines..
That means it's trained, learned...and what I can say more,
A very good idea, well-done and no BIG surprise that
The success is in the door! I hope also that other Engine
Learning Programmers will follow this excellent way!
But on other hand (in case of NON-NNUE...),
Mostly Books performed better than Exğerince file!
Not sure exactly, but CF EXT 291120 can be another
Reason about why...because based on my testings,
CF EXT is one of the strongest engines out there!
Or as other reason, Experience file suffers...sure
I am referring in case of running as NON-NNUE...
Some statistics about 1st Duel (as NNUE Enabled),
2 books (Ukraine 51, SF15f) performed better, nice!
5 of the books are performed worse than Raptora. exp
Where 21 of the played books points are equal...
Statistics about 2nd Duel (as NON-NNUE),
16 opening books performed better, not so bad..!
4 books performed worse than Raptora. expierence
Where 8 of the played books points are equal...
And without to not mention this I can't, reality is reality:
In both Duels: all books are played with disadvantage,
Because BIN book formats have no Learning Future!
I mean it will be more fair..if these kind of Duels matches,
To be played, e.g as Experience vs CTG books...but
I've preferred BIN books under Cutechess GUI, due to
Fritz GUI has no concurrent option.otherwise too much
Complicated for my side, e.g running many GUIs.. .and
Via Cutechess, it's much easier running engine testings!
Plus I can save many CPU and free time, as you see,
The current tourneys are organized in very short time!
And I have to admit also that,
Running 1 Game per GUI: was popular 20-30 years ago!
But we are in 2023 right?..and I hope Chessbase will do it..
Otherwise, I am afraid to say that, (if concurrent matches)
I hope to use and run mainly Cutechess GUI or any
Other GUI, which has this great 'concurrent' option...
And here are Final Standings..sure you can
Appreciate whichever Duel ranking you like )
1st Duel (NNUE Enabled) the Winner is
Experience - Congrats to A. Escobedo!
1 RapTora 2.2 exp 282.0/560
2 Ukraine 51 10.5/20
3 SF15f 10.5/20
4 OPTIMUS 2 10.0/20
5 Hubble 3.3 10.0/20
6 Mini NimaTiv 7 10.0/20
7 LOBO 1 10.0/20
8 MANTIS-DH2 10.0/20
9 Varied 110122 10.0/20
10 xXx 10.0/20
11 StudentChess 10.0/20
12 Solista 081022 10.0/20
13 Spritzer 10.0/20
14 Hamdullah 10.0/20
15 Chucaro 4 10.0/20
16 Adrenaline 10.0/20
17 DON-B 10.0/20
18 CachoUPD2 10.0/20
19 CallmeX 10.0/20
20 CHESSBOT 10.0/20
21 GalactusTurboSE 10.0/20
22 Guzelkiz 220522 10.0/20
23 Eman 240722 10.0/20
24 Everest 090223 10.0/20
25 LCX100M2 9.5/20
26 Thunderwizard 9.5/20
27 LesChats 5 9.5/20
28 Cevdet2 9.5/20
29 Cubail 040722 9.0/20
Draw-Ratio is very high: 99%
----------------------------------------------------------------
2nd Duel (NON-NNUE) the Winner is
Book - Congrats to All Book Authors!
1 RapTora 2.2 exp 264.0/5602 Chucaro 4 13.0/20 3 Adrenaline 13.0/20 4 OPTIMUS 2 12.5/205 Cubail 040722 11.5/20 6 Solista-081022 11.5/20 7 xXx 11.5/20 8 Hamdullah 11.0/209 Lobo 1 10.5/20 10 LCX100M2 10.5/20 11 Mini NimaTiv 7 10.5/20 12 Ukraine 51 10.5/20 13 SF15f 10.5/20 14 Thunderwizard 10.5/20 15 Hubble 3.3 10.5/20 16 Cevdet2 10.5/20 17 Everest 090223 10.5/20 18 CHESSBOT 10.0/20 19 Spritzer 10.0/20 20 CachoUPD2 10.0/20 21 CallmeX 10.0/20 22 StudentChess 10.0/20 23 GalactusTurboSE 10.0/20 24 Guzelkiz 220522 10.0/20 25 DON-B 10.0/20 26 Varied 110122 9.5/20 27 MANTIS-DH2 9.5/20 28 Eman 240722 9.5/20 29 Leschats 5.0 9.0/20
Draw-Ratio is not so high: 86%
Best,
Sedat