I am almost sure It is winning for black.

Kd1 Te8 Te1 (only move) Db6 and White looses AT LEAST pawn f2 without solving its problems.

For example: Dd4 Lc5 Dg4 h5 Df5 Lxf2 Te5 Lg3 Txe8 Txe8 c3 g6 Dd5 le2+ -+

or: Se5 Dxf2 a4 Lf6 Df3 Dxe1 -+

By the way, much better than to just run an engine and ...

The save/load hash feature as depicted for Houdini 2 seems very much inferior to other "learning" methods such as Shredder's position learning, Rybka 3 Persisntent Hash (without the bugs) or Private Critter, in where the user doesn't need to invoke a save command every time he unloads the engine ...

960^2 = 921600

Hi Dr. Deeb,

create a personality, which is dominant also at shorter time controls (like 4+4). For me it is very hard to believe that an Engine is MUCH better than Rybka4 at longer time controls, but worse at shorter.

Hi Dr. Deeb,

maybe Pawn Hash should indeed be assigned relatively to Hash as kingliveson suggests. I asked gaard in this treat
http://www.open-chess.org/viewtopic.php ... 5062#p5062
to make his test of your Firebird again, but with PawnHash=1/8 * Hash.

Thomas

Hi gaard,

can you make the same test with Firebird DD, but using PawnHash = 1/8 * Hash? (If you use Hash=512MB, you have already done the test.) In another treat it was explained that the PawnHash should be assigned relatively to Hash.
http://www.open-chess.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=541&start=40 ...

Thanks for the test.

Hi Dr.D,

which bishoppairvalue is correct?
70 or 65 as you posted here:
http://www.open-chess.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=276

Here it is:

http://www.mediafire.com/?tljdlwjrjji

Hi gaard,

it would be interesting if you test Dr. Deeb's Firebird 1.1, see here http://www.open-chess.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=541#p4876

In Dr. Deeb's list it is more than 100ELO better than all other engines. I have my doubts, but since the differences are so big it would be worth to test this ...