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Subject: Re: YACE is almost as good as CM6000 Final score W6 L8 D6

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 17:51:23 07/24/00

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On July 24, 2000 at 20:31:10, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>For being a new Winboard chess program YACE 0.21 is almost as solid as the
>Default CM6000. I wonder how the newer version of YACE 0.22 or even Crafty
>17.11will perfome against the default CM6000 Settings.

Suggestion:
Run ELOSTAT 1.1 against your PGN file and look at the size of the error bars.

While your assertion may be true, you will find that there is an enormous degree
of uncertainty, when you base the outcome of your predictions on 20 games.

>PS: If the newer CM8000 of the King Program version 3.0 doesn't improve by much
>than the capability of testing different Winboard programs such as Crafty 17.12
>and other by November will give CM8000 quite a challenge.  I hope that by
>November CM8000 has a better Chess Opening than the current.

Crafty is already challenging to the professional engines.  The SSDF estimates
show crafty to be performing very well.



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