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Subject: Re: Finally I forced you to defend your excelllent Glaurung 0.24

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 03:29:43 07/17/05

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On July 17, 2005 at 05:50:44, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On July 17, 2005 at 05:10:04, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>Gregory, did you know that Spike 0.9 is Glaurung enemy number one, simply match
>>them :-)
>
>"Enemy number one" in what sense?  The results I have seen does not
>indicate that Spike is an unexpectedly difficult opponent for Glaurung.
>In the CEGT games, the best data we have for the two engines, the
>only remarkable thing about the results between Spike and Glaurung
>is the very high percentage of draws.  After 22 games, it's 4 wins,
>3 losses and 15 draws for Glaurung.  Have a look at the full list for
>details:
>

I finally made you make a positive statement about your excellent program, since
I tested Glaurung with different programs like Pharaon, The Baron, Frenzee and
many others all that you have to say was the your program was lucky to get that
result, Therefore, I posted this to see if you finally were going to defend your
excellent program.

PS: Yes they are very close in strength.

Jorge



>http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/rangliste.html
>
>The results I have seen elsewhere are not too different.  Of course
>the comparison is not entirely fair, because the latest public version
>of Spike is rather old, while Glaurung 0.2.4 was released just a
>couple of weeks ago.
>
>In my experience, the real nightmare opponents for Glaurung are
>Yace Paderborn, Pepito 1.59 and Hiarcs 9.6.  Against all of these,
>Glaurung consistently underperforms by at least 100 Elo points.
>
>Tord



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