Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Chess software - standard & blitz ratings ?

Author: blass uri

Date: 04:08:55 12/28/98

Go up one level in this thread



On December 26, 1998 at 19:33:01, Bertil Eklund wrote:

>On December 25, 1998 at 11:03:25, blass uri wrote:
>
>>
>>On December 24, 1998 at 16:13:09, Jim Paul wrote:
>>
>>>This is related to my previous CM6000 posting.
>>>What would most people regard as the typical rating improvement in blitz
>>>compared to standard time controls for most PC chess programs these days?
>>>
>>>I know it heavily depends on whether the program is mainly a "heavy calculator"
>>>or a "knowledge based" program
>>
>>
>>No, It is not truth
>>Hiarcs7 is a  "knowledge based" program and it is good at tactics and did very
>>good results in blitz games
>>
>>, ie. I'd expect Rebel and Hiarcs to exhibit less
>>>of a blitz rating increase (if any) compared to their standard 40/2 ratings (on
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>>>SSDF or Selective Search rating lists) for example. Whereas Fritz and probably
>>>CM6000 would have higher ratings at blitz.
>>
>>CM6000 is not very strong at blitz and is better at longer time control.
>>>
>>>I'd expect CM6000 to play about 100 ELO points higher at blitz than it's SSDF
>>>rating (when it gets one anyway !!). That would make it around 2550 at blitz ?!
>>
>>In other words you say that you expect chessmaster6000 to have 2450 at long time
>>control.
>>
>>I expect chessmaster to have better results( more than 2550 ssdf rating with a
>>chance to be number 1 in the ssdf list)
>>
>>Uri
>The best programs can easily compete with the worlds best players in blitz.
>In speed-chess on a fast pc they can compete with everyone maybe except from the
>top five or so. In tournament-level it is still along way to go....
>
>Bertil

I did not mean to rating against humans but to rating in computer-computer
games.

Chessmaster is not strong at blitz relatively to other top programs at blitz.

Uri



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.