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Subject: Re: Commercial program strength vs. amateur program strength

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 05:35:27 12/21/01

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On December 21, 2001 at 08:05:16, Bernhard Bauer wrote:

>On December 21, 2001 at 05:33:51, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:
>
>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Of course. The difference is the amount of time/energy one is ready to spend.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    Christophe
>>>
>>>Well, based on your last two reples to my posts, you agree with me completely.
>>>So why all the noise to Scott about how commercial programs use vastly
>>>different/superior techniques than amateur programs?
>>>
>>>-Tom
>>
>>Tiger/Fritz etc. are a lot stronger in Comp/Comp than, for example, crafty.
>
>Tony Hedlund's match between F7 and Crafty ended 24:16 in favor of Fritz.
>That means 70 points difference in a Comp/Comp match.
>So we know what a lot means.

This match was between Deep Fritz and Crafty and not between Fritz7 and Crafty.

I also think that 24-16 means 80 elo and not 70 elo(I use the liear formula
400*(24-16)/(24+16)=80.

I believe that Fritz7a is more than 100 elo better than Crafty.

Uri



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