Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 01:02:00 05/02/99
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On May 01, 1999 at 23:35:47, Roger D Davis wrote: >Greetings, > >I was looking at the news section at www.gambitsoft.com where the results of a >major winboard tournament are reported. Nimzo is ranked sixth, after Crafty, >Zarkov, Comet, Phalanx, and Voyager. My question is: How is this possible? Nimzo >is a commercial program...isn't it supposed to be better than all these others? >I mean, it's ranks high up in the SSDF list...if these other programs are >better, what might they rank? Okay, so it's just one tournament...but, many more >games were played here than in any grandmaster tournament, and we impute >reliability to those rankings...no one says, "Well, there really isn't a >significance difference between the top three, so having the World Championship >isn't such a big deal." > >Weirder, on the SSDF, Comet is certainly an excellent and strong program, but >not in the top tier of the commercials...yet here it's well above Nimzo2000. >Even if you say that Comet's result is an anomaly, that still leaves four other >chess programs with superior results to Nimzo2000. What gives? Is this degree of >variability in the results really to be attributed to statistical sampling >error? > >Should the makers of these various Winboard engines start arguing that they can >hang (and in this case beat) the commericals and start charging $50 for their >engines, since they're better than Nimzo? Should I start analyzing my games with >various Winboard engines instead of Nimzo2000? > >Roger Hello Roger, yes, WB Nimzo 2000 play not so good. I think that the WB Engine from Nimzo is 150 - 200 ELO weaker as Nimzo 2000 when it run under the own GUI. And WB Comet run faster as the DOS Comet ! In the SSDF play an old DOS Comet Version and we play with an new WB Comet B.00 Version. Uli Türke make an good working and Comet play better chess. I think Comet B.00 play 50 ELO better than the Version A.95/A.96 and 75-100 ELO better than the Version A.90 ! Zarkov is verry strong and Zarkov play unlucky in the tournament. Sory again for this english :-( Kind regards Frank
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