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Subject: Re: SSDF Rating list 00-10-27

Author: pavel

Date: 08:41:10 10/27/00

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On October 27, 2000 at 11:22:51, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 27, 2000 at 11:07:36, pavel wrote:
>
>>On October 27, 2000 at 11:00:39, Harald Faber wrote:
>>
>>>On October 27, 2000 at 10:57:51, pavel wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 27, 2000 at 10:47:57, Mogens Larsen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On October 27, 2000 at 09:45:20, pavel wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>so long for being better than fritz6........
>>>>>
>>>>>I don't think anyone claimed that............
>>>>>
>>>>>Mogens.
>>>>
>>>>uhu!
>>>>
>>>>they did, several beta-testers.
>>>>including the one I meet in chess.net, he was a beta tester for chessbase but
>>>>still he said, for sure, that gandalf was better than fritz6a.
>>>>
>>>>I belive I saw Frank Q saying (or rather typing it) it,
>>>>and several others, can't remember who.
>>>>
>>>>Pavel :)
>>>
>>>Frank is not very objective concerning new/amateur engines...
>>
>>but it is under this statement "gandalf is better than fritz6" that several
>>people has started long-time control games between gandalf and fritz6.
>>
>>they could have tried any thing else, why fritz6? only because of the above
>>statement.
>>
>>so mogens..yes poeple did say that ;)
>>
>>Pavel
>
>Gandalf suffered from a learning bug and lost the same opening twice against
>Junior because the learning is destroyed.
>I believe that the same happened against other programs.
>
>I think that the real ssdf rating of gandalf should be better because the bug
>was corrected and I understood that the bug appears only when you stop games
>played by the autoplayer and is not relevant for the customer.
>
>I do not say that it is better than Fritz6a but I believe that it is better than
>the rating that it got.
>
>Uri

yes I also believe that it is much stronger than what it got, but better than
fritz6 might be a exaggeration. with more game it is likely to come out in upper
front of the list.

Pavel



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