I watched two games with swapped colors Absurd 1.0 vs Patricia 5, both throttled to depth 4. I know I could have run this "bullet-like" using the normal engines and selecting depth 4 as the common GUI level, but I wasn't interested in. I wanted to be the kibitzer, and I was. Funny enough, Patricia 5 always increased depth one by one, resulting in 10secs /move (4 PVs, 2.5 secs/PV display for the setting I chose). On another hand, Absurd is more on the chatterbox side, frequently changing PV on intermediate depths. Yet overall he moved slightly under 15secs/move on average. And lost both games.
I also watched two games with swapped colors Absurd 1.0 vs ACI Boris set to 15secs/move. Two wins for Absurd. But YES, such matches can happen.
Main (header) outcomes from CARA analysis:
Code:
Absurd 1.0 NNUE SW
Overview
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Total Games: 4
Win Rate: 50.0%
Record: 2-0-2
Average Accuracy: 78.9%
Estimated Elo: 1131
Average CPL: 87.8
Top 3 Move %: 53.4%
Patricia 5 NNUE SW
Overview
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Total Games: 2
Win Rate: 100.0%
Record: 2-0-0
Average Accuracy: 85.8%
Estimated Elo: 1323
Average CPL: 25.2
Top 3 Move %: 61.8%
MC ACI Boris
Overview
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Total Games: 2
Win Rate: 0.0%
Record: 0-0-2
Average Accuracy: 67.4%
Estimated Elo: 1033
Average CPL: 121.6
Top 3 Move %: 40.9%
I am very happy with the CARA estimate for Boris Elo: 1033. It scores 1036 in my private rating list. Only two analyzed games, though. I worked hard to help the author normalize the CARA Elo estimates.
In the names of the engines, SW stands for 'SlowWrapper' version; MC for MessChess.
One can easily duplicate engines to keep one full-speed, full strength version alongside a "SlowWrapped" one.
Last but not least: using SlowWrapper, the CPU stays mostly idle for the throttled down engine... Ecological, isn't it?
All the best,
Tibono