Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:21:10 12/05/99
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On November 28, 1999 at 12:50:20, blass uri wrote:
>On November 28, 1999 at 09:56:52, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>That doesn't matter. You release your program on September 1. I get it and
>>study it for 3 months and release my program on December 1. Since everyone is
>>on a "one release per year" sort of schedule, for 9 months I have an advantage.
>
>I do not think that it is so easy to do in 3 monthes a 25 elo improvement(the
>differenece between tiger and number 2).
>
>You can look at the improvement from Fritz5 to Fritz532
>they had more than 3 monthes and they did only 13 elo improvement.
>
>Nimzo732 had also more than 3 monthes and they did only 19 elo improvement.
>
>Junior6 had more than one year and I guess it is not going to do more than 100
>ssdf elo improvement.
100 points, or even 80, would be a HUGE improvement.
Have you tested Junior 6? What is your opinion?
Christophe
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>>That's the way it has gone with commercial program on the SSDF for years...
>>
>>My only comment is that "he who releases last has a measurable advantage" and
>>nothing more than that.
>
>I agree but in this case there are also disadvanteges.
>
>The dos version is slower by 8-10% relative to the windows version because the
>windows version has a better compiler so I do not think that the final result is
>going to be clearly different.
>
>Tiger also does not use nalimov tablebases and it could probably earn 10-20 ssdf
>elo rating from these tablebases.
>
>Uri
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