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Subject: How accurate are the Winboard Programs Rating ?

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 06:25:49 04/13/00


I have seen different Websites and almost all have LG2000 2.5 rated second after
Crafty Fallowed by AnMon 5.6 as the third rated Winboard program. I agreed so
far with those rating, but last week I started to test the newer version of
Gromit 3.0 Versus Lg2000 2.5 and against AnMon 5.06.  Either the testers were
using a different processors than I was prodicing different result, or the
setting and opening book were different, I used an AMD K6 II 500 Mhz and the
result for Gromit 3.0 were much higher than either Lg2000 2.5 and AnMon 5.06.
The time for the first test was set to game in 15 minutes per side using
Winboard version 4.07 and the same computer with 128 Mb of RAM. Gromit Score
28.5 games out of 50 against Lg2000 2.5 and 31 to 19 against AnMon 5.06. Now I
was very upset simply because my favorite program Lg2000 2.5 lost to Gromit 3.0,
but when I tested against Anmont 5.06, I finally realized that Gromit was way
underated. Then I tested then once more increasing the time control to game
in 30 minutes per side, and again Gromit 30 score this time the test was shorter
only 30 games and Gromit score 16.5 out of 30 games against Lg2000 2.5 and
against AnMon 5.06 Gromit Score 18 to 12. Now what is wrong with this picture?
Gromit 3.0 clearly beat the crap out of the two leading programs in the Winboard
rating list. Why does Gromit has such a low rating on all Winboard Rating List?



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