Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:36:57 08/26/00
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On August 26, 2000 at 05:03:16, Uri Blass wrote:
>On August 26, 2000 at 04:39:34, Christian Pike wrote:
>
>>christophe is completely right.
>>they came with a team or at least a group of programs.
>>no program of this group won. the same at the big championship
>>where they came with big multi-cpu-systems.
>>
>>
>>they lost.
>
>They got better result relative to the previous championship.
>In the previous championship they lost inspite of better hardware.
The programs from Shröder BV have got better results in this championship than
in the previous one, and in this championship they did not have the fastest
hardware.
>In this championship it was not the case.
>
>Junior had inferior hardware and if you include Sos then it suffered from even
>inferior hardware and lack of the KQP vs KQ tablebases.
Tiger and Rebel do not have endgame tablebases. Still, they got 3rd and 4th
place.
>>they have not bad progams at all, but they are not better than
>>the programs of their opponents. otherwise the opponents would not
>>win the championships all day long.
>
>We cannot be sure about it.
>The results suggest that shredder is better than Fritz but they suggest also
>that Fritz is better than the other programs including Rebel and tiger.
>
>Before the tournament I guessed that Fritz is the best but I also gave a big
>probability that it is number 3 or number 4.
>
>Now the probability that I give for it to be number 1 is smaller but the
>probabilities that I give to it to be number 3 or number 4 are also smaller.
>
>Consequence:There is no big change in my opinion about Fritz after the
>tournament and it is not clear if the change for Fritz is positive or negative
I don't think we have enough data to comment on the result on a single program.
That's why I tried to measure the performance of the teams. Of course, Millenium
has only one program, so its performance must be taken with more care.
Christophe
>I think that the result is not a success for chessbase but it is also not a
>failure.
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