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Subject: Re: Is Crafty 18.10 the final version?

Author: Andreas Herrmann

Date: 10:49:07 09/04/01

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On September 04, 2001 at 12:32:25, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>On September 04, 2001 at 10:59:24, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On September 04, 2001 at 09:17:30, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>>
>>>On September 04, 2001 at 04:36:58, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 04, 2001 at 04:13:47, Chris Taylor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On September 04, 2001 at 02:26:23, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Bob has obviously abandoned 2 weeks version cycle, which is good!! I prefer
>>>>>>to get new version, when it's really better than old. E.g. in Junior's case
>>>>>>after 1,5 years!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Jouni
>>>>>
>>>>>I have a feeling there will be more versions!
>>>>>If I had a large amount of money, and the betting shop was a tad nearer.  I
>>>>>would, have a flutter.  But then again, I am not a betting man?
>>>>>
>>>>>In auto232 matches I have 18.10 from bob's site doing rather well.  It seems to
>>>>>be getteing stronger with each release.
>>>>>
>>>>I am not so sure. Look at this rating list from Herrmann:
>>>>
>>>>Crafty 17.14              2563    300  259  18  23  268.0  89.3  2207
>>>>Crafty 18.10              2561    372  309  43  20  330.5  88.8  2212
>>>>Crafty 17.12              2516    192  149  27  16  162.5  84.6  2225
>>>>Crafty 18.07              2492    336  261  41  34  281.5  83.8  2211
>>>>
>>>>Only sure thing is, that 18.7 was weak...
>>>
>>>Sure ??? Are you kidding ? Look at the error bars.
>>>These results are very well compatible with the statement that Crafty 18.07 is
>>>the strongest version. The statistics is far too poor to say anything.
>>>Uli
>>
>>No
>>
>>2563-23>2492+41 so it seems clear that 17.14 is better than 18.07 even in the
>>optimistic assumption for 18.07 and the passimistic assumption for 17.14
>
>The numbers, which you are quoting, are not the error bars but the number of
>games with "=" and "-" result,( if I got this right from Andreas' page).
>
>I think that the error bars for 200 - 300 games (like above) are still of the
>order 60 - 70 ELO. It seems that Andreas has not given them.
>With this assumption I obtain
>2492 + 60  >  2563 - 60
>

Hi Uli,

look to SSDF, the error bars for about 300 games is about +/-40 ELO and for 400
games about +/-35 ELO.
But you are right, the max error of 18.07 (2492 +55 or so = 2547) is in the
lower part of the error window of 18.10 (2561 -40 = 2521).

My rating program can't calculate the error bars like ELO-Stat but the ratings
over 85% and under 15% are more exact because my current version works not with
the "nearby formula" (Näherungsformel).

E = ln( 1 / p-1 ) / ln(10) * -400 + a

a = average elo opponents
p = points / number of games

My very old version was working with this formula, but in this case you must
have values between 15 and 85% to got nearby exact ratings.

My current program works with an internal ELO-table for the full percent values.
Between this full percent values i interpolate the results. To got exact values
i iterate until the max. difference between iteration n and n-1 is in a window
that i can configure. Normaly i take a 0,1 ELO window. For the current rating
list with over 26000 games i need 8 iterations to got inside the 0,1 ELO window.
In the other case my program can't calculate values under 1% and over 99%.

Here is the right headline for the above list:

engine                    rating  games  +   =   -    pts     %  oppo
=====================================================================
Crafty 17.14              2563    300  259  18  23  268.0  89.3  2207
Crafty 18.10              2561    372  309  43  20  330.5  88.8  2212
Crafty 17.12              2516    192  149  27  16  162.5  84.6  2225
Crafty 18.07              2492    336  261  41  34  281.5  83.8  2211

+  number of games won
=  number of games draw
-  number of games loose

Andreas

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