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Subject: Re: How accurate are the Winboard Programs Rating ?

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 09:33:02 04/13/00

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On April 13, 2000 at 11:31:24, Jason Williamson wrote:

>Mine would be:
>
>1. Crafty Out of intertia, I suspect that the gap is narrowing if you only use
>one cpu.
>2. LG2000
>3. TCB
>4. Comet
>5. AnMon
>6. Gromit
>7. Amy Again using 1 cpu only
>8. Phalanx
>
>But I also put the gap between 8 and 1 first as less then 100 points, and
>between 8 and 2 maybe less then 50-75. With SMP used, Crafty is quite far ahead,
>then probably LG, then Amy, then the rest.  SOS appears to be ok, but I haven't
>tested it enough to rank it yet.  :)
>
>Jason

You're right, it's very difficult to distinguish between WinBoard engines.
Especially when we're talking about the places from 3 to 8. Most of it is due to
statistical uncertainty and the timecontrol used. On top of that there's the
question of hardware differences.

Best wishes...
Mogens

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