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Subject: Re: The weakness of showing too many games before the match begins

Author: Thomas Lagershausen

Date: 15:53:09 10/09/00

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On October 09, 2000 at 15:03:49, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On October 09, 2000 at 14:44:13, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On October 09, 2000 at 11:52:32, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>
>>>On October 09, 2000 at 11:41:08, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 09, 2000 at 11:05:33, Johan Havegheer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On October 09, 2000 at 10:06:41, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On October 09, 2000 at 09:56:37, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Please don't get me wrong, I admire Christophe programs and think very high of
>>>>>>>his progamming skills, but against this group of programs, I would have to place
>>>>>>>Tiger either 2nd or 3rd, but my favorite to win the overall match is
>>>>>>>Nimzo 8.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Nimzo ??? this will be interesting. they had to play before again...
>>>>>>now new versions.
>>>>>>when is the event ?
>>>>>
>>>>>Starts next weekend (14-15 oktober and 21-22 oktober)
>>>>>Also Bart Weststraete is back with a new version of Kallisto.
>>>>>I think Fritz, Nimzo and Chess Tiger are the favorites.
>>>
>>>I can see Fritz and Tiger being labelled as a favorite, but Nimzo 8's only real
>>>test in competition was the WCCC and it feel flat on it's face. I love the Nimzo
>>>programs, but really it didn't do well there, and I do not expect to see it do
>>>well here.
>>>
>>>ChessTiger is playing unbelieveably well, ans as a beta tester, I know the raw
>>>power that comes from it. I would have to say it is extremely stronger than the
>>>version 12.0e that was out last year, and took #1 on the SSDF list. Tiger II
>>>version 13.0 is incredible.
>>>
>>>My point was proven as I am running it on a PIII 450 and I easily beat 1Ghz
>>>machines all the time, and actually up until last night was _undefeated_ on
>>>Chess.net after almost 150 games.
>>>
>>>I am in the top 5 on FICS with it.
>>>
>>>Look at Species(C) on FICS, or Webkikr(C) on Chess.net to see how well it is
>>>doing.
>>>
>>Testing Tiger at a fast time control vs other programs and at normal time
>>control are two separate issues all together, when you mentioned that both
>>accounts are doing well are you saying that with one account you are playing at
>>a standard time control vs other programs and humans as well?
>>
>>Pichard.
>> n
>>>Both accounts are doing very well.
>>>
>>>I would have to say that Tiger will win. Fritz is a possibility as well, but my
>>>money is on Tiger. At the final roar, I think Tiger will be champ.
>
>There is one disadvantage of showing too many games either by testing the
>beta version of Tiger in the CCC or by playing at the FICS Species (C) or
>Chess.net Webkikr (C). The other programmers are constantly collecting Games
>Weakness of the program being tested as a beta version in this case the Tiger
>Beta tester are showing too many games. You don't see the beta testers of Quest
>or the King program other than CM8000 which is totally a different program and
>it plays different than the commercial Chessmaster or Beta version of CM8000,
>furthermore, there has not been too many games shown of the new version of
>Nimzo 8, which to my judgement did very good except for a minor bug which has
>been debugged as far as I know. Just wait for the surprise of those programs
>that are not showing their weakness by their beta testers posting the majority
>of their tested games
>
>
>Pichard.

How do want to profit from this games? Chess is to complicated and chessprograms
do not understand like Kasparov their opponents.



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