Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 19:19:44 07/15/05
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On July 15, 2005 at 21:00:05, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>Here you simply end op with an ever growing list of engines you have to keep >>playing against, and because they play more and more games it will be harder and >>harder to take them out. How do you break this circle? > >There is no value to break the circle until the engine is no longer strong >enough (e.g. when it becomes 300 Elo weaker than the engine that you wish to >calibrate, then the data loses its punch). As long as the engine is within 100 >Elo of the test engine, the more games that have been played against an engine, >the better it is to test with. If we had an engine with 1 trillion games >against it by carefully calibrated known opponents and it was within 100 Elo of >our engine, it would be the best possible measuring line. I would prefer a round robit type tournament with a roughly even number of games per engine instead of forever gauntletting the oldtimers. I'm pretty sure it creates a more accurate rating too. >>Take out the old engines and just play on against its opponents, there must be >>many of those. > >The old hardware programs in the list don't have much value anymore, because >most good amateur programs can clobber them. But Fritz 5.32 on a 450 MHz box >will be plenty strong of an opponent for a couple years to come, probably. I think that one has earned its retirement. :) -S >[snip]
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