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Subject: Re: ICC Green List - Jan 17

Author: Inmann Werner

Date: 02:34:16 01/18/00

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On January 18, 2000 at 04:17:33, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 17, 2000 at 14:34:49, Will Singleton wrote:
>>On January 17, 2000 at 14:05:27, Dann Corbit wrote:
>[snip]
>>>>Amateur         2432    9.82 |   71%     38   38  |  2432   2432        0
>>>Interesting that "Ameteur" is doing better than some "Professionals" (see below)
>>
>>Well, it *is* playing well, but some of those others are probably playing
>>tougher opponents than me.
>
>If they are, that would be more to their advantage, due to integral rounding.
>In fact, if you played programs consistently 100 points above or so, it would
>probably maximize your "point harvest."  But you would need to play a lot of
>games before it worked out.  Because the calculations are not performed in
>floating point (so I'm told), it is definitely an advantage to play stronger
>opposition.

I am not full of your opinion...
Every Engine has opponents it likes, and opponents it hates. If I play an
opponent I like for many games, my "ELO" increases above the truth. If i play
the Crafty clones (not an engine, my prog likes) it goes down.
So I often test against Crafty clones (am I stupid?)if they allow it to learn
out of it....
(I like to loose at ICC, cause you learn more out of a loose than out of a
win...)

Werner



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