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Subject: Re: Congratulation for chesstiger(better performance than shredder in wmccc)

Author: Tony Hedlund

Date: 06:38:54 08/24/01

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On August 24, 2001 at 08:52:51, Mark Young wrote:

>On August 24, 2001 at 07:58:08, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On August 24, 2001 at 07:51:16, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On August 24, 2001 at 07:29:21, Günther Simon wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 24, 2001 at 07:15:30, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On August 24, 2001 at 07:06:51, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Here are the results by
>>>>>>elostat program
>>>>>>
>>>>>>You can see that shredder is only 3th place micro based on the performance.
>>>>>>Shredder is the world Micro champion by definition but Tiger and Rebel had a
>>>>>>better performance.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>1 Deep Junior 7                  : 2745  228 281     9    88.9 %   2384   22.2 %
>>>>>>2 Quest (DeepFritz)              : 2550  266 169     9    66.7 %   2430   44.4 %
>>>>>>3 Chess Tiger 14.6 Gambit Tiger  : 2499  291 229     9    55.6 %   2461   22.2 %
>>>>>>4 Crafty 18.10X                  : 2467  291 165     9    55.6 %   2428   44.4 %
>>>>>>5 Rebel                          : 2466  291 229     9    55.6 %   2428   22.2 %
>>>>>>6 Shredder                       : 2466  266 249     9    66.7 %   2346   22.2 %
>>>>>>7 Goliath                        : 2421  291 165     9    55.6 %   2382   44.4 %
>>>>>>8 Gromit 3.9.5                   : 2364  278 201     9    61.1 %   2285   33.3 %
>>>>>>9 Ferret                         : 2359  291 229     9    55.6 %   2320   22.2
>>>>>>%10 Gandalf 5.0                   : 2310  291 229     9    55.6 %   2271   22.2
>>>>>>%
>>>>>>11 ParSOS                        : 2256  291 229     9    55.6 %   2217   22.2 %
>>>>>>12 Diep                          : 2227  165 291     9    44.4 %   2265   44.4 %
>>>>>>13 IsiChess X                    : 2166  201 278     9    38.9 %   2245   33.3 %
>>>>>>14 Tao                           : 2165  229 291     9    44.4 %   2203   22.2 %
>>>>>>15 Ruy Lopez                     : 2118  366 266     9    33.3 %   2238    0.0 %
>>>>>>16 Pharaon                       : 2082  169 266     9    33.3 %   2202   44.4 %
>>>>>>17 SpiderGirl                    : 2014  213 255     9    27.8 %   2180   33.3 %
>>>>>>18 XiNiX                         : 1724  400 108     9     5.6 %   2216   11.1 %
>>>>>>
>>>>>>congratulation also for the Deep Junior team for winning the event convincingly
>>>>>>when the difference from the second place is almost 200 elo and the hardware
>>>>>>explain less than 70 elo difference.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Uri
>>>>>
>>>>>I can add that I think that it may be a better idea to use elostat to decide
>>>>>about the world champion in the future.
>>>>>
>>>>>I know that a lot of people are going to disagree but it is my opinion.
>>>>>I prefer a complicated method that does more justive and not a simple method.
>>>>>
>>>>>Uri
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Sorry Uri - but this is really nonsens.
>>>>You cant use ELO-Stat on a Swiss Tournament with 9 rounds as
>>>>it is described by the author. ELO-Stat is designed to calculate
>>>>ratings out of a pool of unknown rated progs with a very very lot
>>>>of games.
>>>>Therefor if you take a closer look at your table you would see that
>>>>the error margin is at least 435!pts (Pharaon) and max 632!! (RuyLopez).
>>>>And would you really believe Parallel SOS to be at 2256? :))
>>>
>>>The question is not which program is better.
>>>competitions of 9 rounds are not supposed to answer this question.
>>>
>>>The question is which program did better result.
>>>The elostat answer this question better than the ranking
>>>
>>>The rating is also based on average of 2300 if I remember corectly and should
>>>not be compared with humans.
>>>
>>>
>>>>You must be a strong Tigerfan to post this very unlike post, as it
>>>>is diametral to all your previous posts about stats?!
>>>
>>>I do not see contradiction with previous posts of myself.
>>>
>>>>(Btw hasnt Shredder won against Tiger or am I out of memory?)
>>>
>>>Yes
>>>Shredder won against tiger.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>I can add congratulations for crafty for being the best amatuer.
>>I here that Gromit won the title of the best amatuer and it is unfair because
>>Crafty was more than 100 elo better
>>
>>I know that Gromit beated Crafty in the last round but it does not change the
>>fact that Crafty was more than 100 elo better based on elostat.
>>
>>Uri
>
>A nine round Swiss tournament to determine the computer world championship in my
>mind makes the title world champion a joke.  This is nothing more then another
>computer chess tournament. To draw any conclusions from this one tournament and
>then declare the winner to be the world champion makes me sick. If the title of
>computer world champion means the winner is declared the strongest computer
>program.

And why a odd numbers of rounds? Why not 10 rounds, then the players get five
white and five black games.

Tony



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