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Experiment with GUI's
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:40 am
by Swaminathan
I think it would be a good idea to test single engine/STS under different GUI's specifying the certain conditions.
To see how consistent the results are with respect to GUI used, and correlation.
So far these are the GUI's/tools which support EPD testing:
Chessbase
Arena
GradTest
ChessGUI
anything else? Could somebody who own Shredder GUI, ChessPartner, Aquarium try this experiment?
Re: Experiment with GUI's
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:08 pm
by Ted Summers
Hi,
Could post a link to the STS, I will try it in the other GUI's when I get time.
Re: Experiment with GUI's
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:19 pm
by kingliveson
Swaminathan wrote:I think it would be a good idea to test single engine/STS under different GUI's specifying the certain conditions.
To see how consistent the results are with respect to GUI used, and correlation.
So far these are the GUI's/tools which support EPD testing:
Chessbase
Arena
GradTest
ChessGUI
anything else? Could somebody who own Shredder GUI, ChessPartner, Aquarium try this experiment?
No reason for results to vary more than 2 percent from one gui to another since they are all using the same protocol. Lag may be the only difference. I could be wrong however.
Re: Experiment with GUI's
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:20 pm
by Swaminathan
Ted Summers wrote:Hi,
Could post a link to the STS, I will try it in the other GUI's when I get time.
Thanks for the help, Ted. Really appreciated.
Here is the link to download each one of them:
http://sites.google.com/site/strategict ... /downloads
Re: Experiment with GUI's
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:21 pm
by Swaminathan
kingliveson wrote:Swaminathan wrote:I think it would be a good idea to test single engine/STS under different GUI's specifying the certain conditions.
To see how consistent the results are with respect to GUI used, and correlation.
So far these are the GUI's/tools which support EPD testing:
Chessbase
Arena
GradTest
ChessGUI
anything else? Could somebody who own Shredder GUI, ChessPartner, Aquarium try this experiment?
No reason for results to vary more than 2 percent from one gui to another since they are all using the same protocol. Lag may be the only difference. I could be wrong however.
I think that chessbase or Grad Test tool have the least "lag". It would be interesting to try out anyway
Re: Experiment with GUI's
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:28 pm
by Swaminathan
We could also get some idea about which GUI's are reporting vast differences than others.
Re: Experiment with GUI's
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:06 pm
by Octopus
A GUI might not necessarily be neutral. Maybe there exists a GUI, which cheats in favor for a specific engine by supporting that program e.g. by live sent information about actual best moves or their evaluations e.g. using hidden information channels - who knows ... ?
Re: Experiment with GUI's
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 11:37 pm
by istolacio
Re: Experiment with GUI's
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 11:45 pm
by Sentinel
Swaminathan wrote:I think that chessbase or Grad Test tool have the least "lag". It would be interesting to try out anyway
Actually Winboard has the least "lag". But it doesn't support EPD testing.
Re: Experiment with GUI's
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 2:03 am
by Swaminathan
Sentinel wrote:Swaminathan wrote:I think that chessbase or Grad Test tool have the least "lag". It would be interesting to try out anyway
Actually Winboard has the least "lag". But it doesn't support EPD testing.
Too bad, I wish H.G Muller would implement a feature because it would really be helpful.