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Match KINGSROW - DAMAGE 16.1 (3-move ballots)

Kingsrow 1.63 vs. Damage 16.1 44 wins, 3 losses, 939 draws, 0 unknowns

Kingsrow 1.63 x64

Threads = 16
Opening Book = Best Moves
Pondering = On
HashTable Size = 512 MB
DB cache Size = 30000 MB
The base ends = 8 Pieces
Time = 1 Min / 120 Moves ...

Round 8 of the International draughts tournament 2026 - results:

Maximus 2.02 1 : 1 Kingsrow 1.63
Tornado 7.27a 1 : 1 Damage 16.1 NNUE
Edeon Sport 5.4.312 0 : 2 GWD 4.26
Scan 3.1 1 : 1 Sjende Blyn 2026
Flits 3.02 0 : 2 IDames 9 Neuronal
Ares AI 1.91 2 : 0 Plus 500 6.57.3
Moby Dam (May 15 2026) 2 ...

Match KINGSROW - MOBY DAM (May 15 2026) (3-move ballots)

Kingsrow 1.63 vs. Moby Dam (May 15 2026) 91 wins, 1 losses, 894 draws, 0 unknowns

Kingsrow 1.63 x64

Threads = 8
Opening Book = Best Moves
Pondering = On
HashTable Size = 512 MB
DB cache Size = 30000 MB
The base ends = 8 Pieces
Time ...

Match KINGSROW - ARES (3-move ballots)

Kingsrow 1.63 vs. Ares AI 1.91 20 wins, 1 losses, 965 draws, 0 unknowns

Kingsrow 1.63 x64

Threads = 16
Opening Book = Best Moves
Pondering = On
HashTable Size = 512 MB
DB cache Size = 30000 MB
The base ends = 8 Pieces
Time = 1 Min / 120 Moves

Ares ...

What on earth is 'TT-size = 16'? That means it used a hash-table of 65 KB, does not seem very appropriate with 16 threads sharing the hash-table.

That version of the engine does not know 'Bucket-size', it should be 'Bucket-shift = 2', it clearly was in the ini-file when I sent you this engine ...

Match KINGSROW - ARES (3-move ballots)

Kingsrow 1.63 vs. Ares AI 1.91 23 wins ,1 losses, 962 draws, 0 unknowns

Kingsrow 1.63 x64

Threads = 16
Opening Book = Best Moves
Pondering = On
HashTable Size = 512 MB
DB cache Size = 30000 MB
The base ends = 8 Pieces
Time = 1 Min / 120 Moves

Ares AI 1 ...

> The program is recording the moves incorrectly during the game.
I will fix this next version

> I get the impression (I may be wrong) that the measurement is roughly the same as if I were using 16 threads.
16 or 32 threads will not matter that much. Depending on your processor, it is probably ...

Ed Gilbert wrote: Thu Jun 18, 2026 18:15 I have the Dragon 2 through 7 pieces db on Mega here: https://mega.nz/file/iAB2DCRK#Xk4G6XQRM ... 86zwghkofE

Ed - Thank you, but this database is too small.

Hi Krzysztof,

I will have a look at the issues you have.

Note that dragon 4.7 is not stronger than the previous version. And you still can use the old databases.

Michel



First of all, thank you for your answer. I will describe what I noticed.

1. I have 32 threads set as shown in the image ...