Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:58:07 06/21/04
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On June 21, 2004 at 15:05:32, Sandro Necchi wrote: >On June 21, 2004 at 10:30:33, martin fierz wrote: > >>On June 20, 2004 at 02:56:08, Sandro Necchi wrote: >> >>>There is a simple way to verify if the "authors" are correct or not. >>> >>>They should state clearly how to evaluate all the solutions of the tests >>>comparing the hardware to the SSDF one, in order to create the Elo figure. >>> >>>Then by choosing the next release of 5 commercial programs which will be tested >>>by SSDF they have to predict the Elo for ALL 5 chess programs with a + - of 10 >>>points. >>> >>>Than and indipendent tester should run the tests. >>> >>>If they fail, than they loose. >>> >>>Sandro >> >>+-10 elo, you must be kidding! >>the SSDF results themselves have larger error margins than that... >> >>cheers >> martin > >Not at all!! > >I did guessed the SSDF rating of Shredder 7 CB, Shredder 7.04 UCI and got very >close to Shredder 8 CB ( + - 10 points). If the rating of shredder against set A of opponents is 2800 and against set B is 2830 and if you do not know which set the ssdf is going to choose than you have at least 50% chance to be wrong by more than 10 elo. Uri
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