Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 01:32:27 05/07/04
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On May 07, 2004 at 04:25:01, Uri Blass wrote: >>>You will have to forgive me here but... To say that the difference in Elo of >>>Crafty and Movei is less than 100 is a nonsense. >> >>Well maybe it is 120 Elo, I don't know, but I _think_ it might be less than 100. >> >>Ie. if Movei could score 40% against Crafty I wouldn't be surprised. Gothmog has >>scored 50% in some tests I believe, and Movei and Gothmog seems quite close. > >Do not forget that movei never play long matches in Leo's tournament. > >It is possible that in matches of 4 games it is only 100 elo weaker but I guess >that in matches of 40 games the difference is bigger because movei has almost no >learning(it only knows to change the first move after a loss) and when it is not >a problem in matches of 4 games because there are 2 good replies for every move >it may be a problem in match of 40 games when in order to avoid losing the same >game again and again I need to tell it to play bad openings from time to time. Yes that's true. Crafty has some advantages in real life such as SMP, better books and learning. Looking aside from that, how big is the strength then? I don't think there is any point in playing a long match if only one engine has learning, it is obvious that a lot of games will be repeated. -S. >Uri
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