Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:16:19 07/27/00
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On July 26, 2000 at 10:00:16, blass uri wrote: >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 Your statment implies that ratings are transitive. They are not, in the case of computers at least. I have seen many cases where three programs had ratings, with A > B > C. And yet C would beat B, B would beat A and A would beat C. the rating is a statistical predictor, not a statement of fact about game outcomes...
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