TCEC stage 3 , New Houdini starts with a bang

[APassionForCriminalJustic]

What was wrong with Komodo's settings? People should at least be entitled to a proper explanation by the organizers.

The differences can be found in the initial game comment.

Before:

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BlackEngineOptions: Use Syzygy=true; Syzygy Probe Depth=2; Syzygy Probe Limit=6; Dynamism=110;

After:

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BlackEngineOptions: Contempt=7;

To summarize, removing custom Syzygy probe options and "Dynamism" (whatever that is), and adding Contempt 7.

It would be nice to hear from Mark what the effects of these changes are likely to be.

Contempt = 7 is pretty important. We lowered the Contempt for this stage because the average opponent rating is higher than the last stage. Using a higher Contempt would have encouraged Komodo to try to avoid draws harder, and to keep more pieces on the board at some sacrifice of positional play. Dynamism also was wrong and our testing showed in Komodo 10.1, the higher setting was better.

TCEC has been very accurate at settings in the past, but we are all only human and some errors can occur. When they are found it should be corrected and replayed, which is what they did, and swiftly too.

There will be lots of games in this Stage.

People are just desperate for a houdini miracle... Houdini will fail like it did before with houdini 4... while Houdart was on vacation both Komodo and Stockfish walked away with the crown.

[Laskos]

What was wrong with Komodo's settings? People should at least be entitled to a proper explanation by the organizers.

The differences can be found in the initial game comment.

Before:

Code: Select all

BlackEngineOptions: Use Syzygy=true; Syzygy Probe Depth=2; Syzygy Probe Limit=6; Dynamism=110;

After:

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BlackEngineOptions: Contempt=7;

To summarize, removing custom Syzygy probe options and "Dynamism" (whatever that is), and adding Contempt 7.

It would be nice to hear from Mark what the effects of these changes are likely to be.

The values "Before" were close to to optimal. The ELO loss was no larger than 5-10 ELO points and hardly the reason for the lost game. Seems unfair to Houdini to replay the game.

[carldaman]

What was wrong with Komodo's settings? People should at least be entitled to a proper explanation by the organizers.

The differences can be found in the initial game comment.

Before:

Code: Select all

BlackEngineOptions: Use Syzygy=true; Syzygy Probe Depth=2; Syzygy Probe Limit=6; Dynamism=110;

After:

Code: Select all

BlackEngineOptions: Contempt=7;

To summarize, removing custom Syzygy probe options and "Dynamism" (whatever that is), and adding Contempt 7.

It would be nice to hear from Mark what the effects of these changes are likely to be.

The values "Before" were close to to optimal. The ELO loss was no larger than 5-10 ELO points and hardly the reason for the lost game. Seems unfair to Houdini to replay the game.

That was my reasoning as well.

[Laskos]

What was wrong with Komodo's settings? People should at least be entitled to a proper explanation by the organizers.

The differences can be found in the initial game comment.

Before:

Code: Select all

BlackEngineOptions: Use Syzygy=true; Syzygy Probe Depth=2; Syzygy Probe Limit=6; Dynamism=110;

After:

Code: Select all

BlackEngineOptions: Contempt=7;

To summarize, removing custom Syzygy probe options and "Dynamism" (whatever that is), and adding Contempt 7.

It would be nice to hear from Mark what the effects of these changes are likely to be.

The values "Before" were close to to optimal. The ELO loss was no larger than 5-10 ELO points and hardly the reason for the lost game. Seems unfair to Houdini to replay the game.

That was my reasoning as well.

To see how disproportionate the action to replay the game is, for at most 5-10 ELO points loss in ONE game, they changed the result in the whole Stage 3 by 1 point between Komodo and Houdini, and that in 56 games each amounts to 13 ELO points in the WHOLE stage.

[Uri Blass]

What was wrong with Komodo's settings? People should at least be entitled to a proper explanation by the organizers.

The differences can be found in the initial game comment.

Before:

Code: Select all

BlackEngineOptions: Use Syzygy=true; Syzygy Probe Depth=2; Syzygy Probe Limit=6; Dynamism=110;

After:

Code: Select all

BlackEngineOptions: Contempt=7;

To summarize, removing custom Syzygy probe options and "Dynamism" (whatever that is), and adding Contempt 7.

It would be nice to hear from Mark what the effects of these changes are likely to be.

The values "Before" were close to to optimal. The ELO loss was no larger than 5-10 ELO points and hardly the reason for the lost game. Seems unfair to Houdini to replay the game.

I do not think that we know the elo loss at long time control and there is no basis to claim that the wrong setting is not the reason for the lost game.

I see nothing unfair for Houdini.

[Uri Blass]

What was wrong with Komodo's settings? People should at least be entitled to a proper explanation by the organizers.

The differences can be found in the initial game comment.

Before:

Code: Select all

BlackEngineOptions: Use Syzygy=true; Syzygy Probe Depth=2; Syzygy Probe Limit=6; Dynamism=110;

After:

Code: Select all

BlackEngineOptions: Contempt=7;

To summarize, removing custom Syzygy probe options and "Dynamism" (whatever that is), and adding Contempt 7.

It would be nice to hear from Mark what the effects of these changes are likely to be.

Contempt = 7 is pretty important. We lowered the Contempt for this stage because the average opponent rating is higher than the last stage. Using a higher Contempt would have encouraged Komodo to try to avoid draws harder, and to keep more pieces on the board at some sacrifice of positional play. Dynamism also was wrong and our testing showed in Komodo 10.1, the higher setting was better.

TCEC has been very accurate at settings in the past, but we are all only human and some errors can occur. When they are found it should be corrected and replayed, which is what they did, and swiftly too.

There will be lots of games in this Stage.

People are just desperate for a houdini miracle... Houdini will fail like it did before with houdini 4... while Houdart was on vacation both Komodo and Stockfish walked away with the crown.

It is not clear that Houdini will fail and I do not think that you know what Robert Houdart did in the time since Houdini4.

The fact that he did not send a new version earlier does not mean that he had not a new version.

For example it is possible that he did not send a new version because he was not sure that his version is stable with 20 cores or because he knew it was not stable and there are bugs that he need to fix after changing the code in order to earn more from many cores.

[tpoppins]

we all know that Komodo is stronger... get some brains...

Why run TCEC at all then? Let's just have Adam list the final rankings and save a lot of time, effort and electricity.

[Branko Radovanovic]

To see how disproportionate the action to replay the game is, for at most 5-10 ELO points loss in ONE game, they changed the result in the whole Stage 3 by 1 point between Komodo and Houdini, and that in 56 games each amounts to 13 ELO points in the WHOLE stage.

If you're saying that changing the result in the whole stage by 13 Elo points is a big thing, you're contravening your own argument.

[Laskos]

What was wrong with Komodo's settings? People should at least be entitled to a proper explanation by the organizers.

The differences can be found in the initial game comment.

Before:

Code: Select all

BlackEngineOptions: Use Syzygy=true; Syzygy Probe Depth=2; Syzygy Probe Limit=6; Dynamism=110;

After:

Code: Select all

BlackEngineOptions: Contempt=7;

To summarize, removing custom Syzygy probe options and "Dynamism" (whatever that is), and adding Contempt 7.

It would be nice to hear from Mark what the effects of these changes are likely to be.

The values "Before" were close to to optimal. The ELO loss was no larger than 5-10 ELO points and hardly the reason for the lost game. Seems unfair to Houdini to replay the game.

I do not think that we know the elo loss at long time control and there is no basis to claim that the wrong setting is not the reason for the lost game.

I see nothing unfair for Houdini.

With your usual "we do not know anything" are you sure you usually see something at all? One can try to see things by a rough estimate. The drawelo here is about 250 ELO points, and if the differnce from best settings is 5 ELO points, then we have 98% that the wrong settings did not affect the result. Only if the wrong settings are affecting by an order of 250 ELO points Komodo, we can say that probably this was the cause for the loss. Is it plausible?

[Laskos]

To see how disproportionate the action to replay the game is, for at most 5-10 ELO points loss in ONE game, they changed the result in the whole Stage 3 by 1 point between Komodo and Houdini, and that in 56 games each amounts to 13 ELO points in the WHOLE stage.

If you're saying that changing the result in the whole stage by 13 Elo points is a big thing, you're contravening your own argument.

The point you apparently missed was that a 5 ELO points mistake in a SINGLE game resulted in a 13 ELO points mistake for the whole stage.