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Subject: Re: Chessbase will win!

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 02:42:26 08/17/00

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On August 17, 2000 at 04:52:26, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 17, 2000 at 04:02:42, Jason Williamson wrote:
>
>>On August 17, 2000 at 01:38:32, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On August 16, 2000 at 18:55:43, Marcus Kaestner wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>be sure that the improvement of the chessbase engines lay far behind rebel or
>>>>>>shredder for example.
>>>>>
>>>>>Did you test all the chessbase engines to be sure about it?
>>>>>Did chessbase send you their latest versions?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>the answer is very easy:
>>>>if they want to have a realistic chance, fritz has to gain a minimum improvement
>>>>of 50 elo, junior has to gain a minimum of 100 elo.
>>>>
>>>>i know for sure that this is not the case.
>>>
>>>How do you know?
>>>Did the programmers tell you that it is not the case?
>>>>
>>>>so chessbase will hardly be able to win the title.
>>>>
>>>>marcus
>>>
>>>Based on previous post of Amir Ban Frans Morsch is the most unrespected
>>>programmer and amir also claimed that he is most likely going to release an
>>>atomic bomb in his next version.
>>>
>>>Based on this information I will not be surprised if Fritz's version is 100 elo
>>>better than Fritz6.
>>>
>>>I will be surprised if fritz's version is less than 50 elo better than Fritz6
>>>because of Amir's post.
>>>
>>>My guess for the first 3 places in order to win chessbase8 was:
>>>1)Fritz
>>>2)Shredder
>>>3)Crafty
>>>
>>>I guess that all these programs are more than 50 elo better than fritz6 when in
>>>the case of crafty the main reason is better hardware.
>>>
>>>I guess that Rebel,Tiger and Nimzo8 and maybe Junior are also better than
>>>fritz6.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>
>>Don't just attribute Crafty's strength on hardware, Bob has done lots of work on
>>improving Crafty's play at slower time controls.  I would say Crafty is at least
>>100 points stronger today at slower stuff then 3 years ago, maybe closer to 200
>>points.
>
>I am sure Crafty today is clearly better than 3 years ago but the question was
>to compare Crafty with other programs and not with old versions of crafty.
>
>Guessing that Crafty is better than fritz6 mainly because of hardware is not the
>same as attributing Crafty's strength on hardware.
>
>Uri

True enough, in any event, despite the poor turnout of engines in total, it
should be an interesting event none the less.

JW



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