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Subject: Re: Goliath Light - Nimzo99 26,5-13,5!

Author: blass uri

Date: 07:00:16 07/26/00

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On July 26, 2000 at 09:49:46, Jason Williamson wrote:

>On July 26, 2000 at 07:12:27, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>I think this result from SSDF is quite surprising and really needs one
>>exclamation mark. This was of course 40/2h match in AMD K6-2/450Mhz.
>>I note, that Fritz6 won Nimzo with same numbers - so is Goliath at Fritz
>>level!?
>>
>>Jouni
>
>This result doesn't surprise me at all, and more or less matches my testing on
>my machine.  In fact, Nimzo'99 is probably not as strong as almost ALL the best
>amateur engines, ie Crafty, Anmon, Little Goliath, etc.  Don't misunderstand me,
>I am in no way saying that Nimzo 2000 is weak, I have no way of knowing this as
>I don't have that.


What is the time control that you test?
Nimzo is known to be a weak program at blitz time control and the ssdf tests
were at tournament time control.

The result in tournament time control is surprising because nimzo99's rating is
2623 that is only 1 elo worse than Crafty17.07

Uri



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