Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 11:47:22 10/27/00
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On October 27, 2000 at 12:59:00, Bertil Eklund wrote: >On October 27, 2000 at 12:43:59, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On October 27, 2000 at 12:35:28, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >> >>>On October 27, 2000 at 12:23:35, Marcus Kaestner wrote: >>> >>>>>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. >>>> >>>> >>>>more important: gandalf wins very much from fast computers. ALL the testers i >>>>know have the same results: on a 1 ghz machine with game in one hour, gandalf is >>>>slightly behind fritz6a. >>> >>>The 40:2 of the SSDF on AMD 450s is slower than Game/60 on a 1 Ghz machine, and >>>their rating for Gandalf was much lower than "slightly behind F6a." >>> >>>Enrique >> >>Their results are not convincing because gandalf suffered from a learning bug. >> >>I am interested to know the rating if you do not include losses of gandalf >>because of the learning bug. >> >>It is possible that it is only slightly behind F6a without the learning bug. >> >>Uri >Hi! > >I guess this could have affected the outcome in 1-3 games say 1,5 points of over >300 games. BTW before the corrected bug (about 50-60 games) Gandalf had 2572. > >Don't forget that Gandalf is probably the best Winboard-engine, number six in >the list and last but not least a very nice program to follow. Very sharp play, >maybee without direct speculative play but very exciting attacks. Also remember >that it probably plays better with todays cpus and likes longer time-controls. > >Bertil Yes, yes I think so :-) Best Frank
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