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Subject: Re: Crafty 17-10 v Fritz 6a 60 min Nunn 1

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 04:45:03 04/25/00

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On April 25, 2000 at 04:43:28, Chessfun wrote:

>No assumption, Dr. Hyatt says it does.

Then there's still the assumption that Dr. Hyatt is right :-).

>An interesting point though the same could also be true of F6a.

Naturally, but that wouldn't make the comparison easier to interpret.

>Nunn 1 was originally used as that was what Jouni posted with
>Crafty beating F6a. I had played IMO enough games at Nunn 1 to
>question if this was possible as IMO it wasn't.

I agree that the results of Jounis test is somewhat dubious and that your tests
undermine them to a certain degree. I just have a few questions for the sake of
clarification:

1) Are you using Nunn 1 when using two machines? And if yes, why?
2) Since Nunn positions excludes the use of opening book, what about tablebases?
Shouldn't tablebases be excluded as well, since strength of a program should
include endgame prowess?

I don't know if the lack of tablebases will be of advantage to a certain
program. It's only an empirical question.

Best wishes...
Mogens



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