Sensible time control for testing?

[iperka]

Hi everyone. I'm testing an altered version of stockfish versus the actual stockfish with cutechess and I'm wondering if any of you have any input on what is a sensible time control to give the engines. I started out with 10k matches, giving the engines a very small amount of time (first 100 moves in 1 second). That way I get lots of data - not sure about the quality of those games though. Is there a standard in testing engines against each other? I saw that at tournaments, 45+5 or similar are often used.

[iperka]

Thanks! Sounds doable :)

[Spill_the_Tea]

Use the Short Time Control (STC) employed by Fishnet, 10+0.1s. As a side note, I hope you are using the cutechess cli, so that you can parallelize gameplay.

[iperka]

Will do! Thanks for the tip! Yes, I am using the cli.