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Subject: Re: The overall performance of Gandalf 4.32 f is 2545 too low !

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 14:28:54 11/01/00

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>Your results suggest that 4.32e is more than 100 elo better than 4.32f at all
>time controls and even more than 200 elo better than 4.32e at 40/40.
>
>They suggest that 4.32f is 125 elo better than Fritz6a.
>
>If you are right then the only reason that I can find not to sell 4.32e is if
>the programmer want to use it to win a correspondence championship but the first
>thing to suspect is that something is wrong with your results(maybe Fritz has a
>bug that tells it to play weaker only in eng-eng matches against Gandalf4.32e
>and maybe the machine that you used for 4.32f had problems and 4.32f was slowed
>by a significant factor)
>
>Uri

I have always felt that Gandalf was stronger by far over Fritz 6a. The earlier
versions of Gandalf had problems with Fritz, but the E version's book seemed to
get the best of Fritz.

The computers used in the test are the same ones I am using now, and if you were
to look on FICS, or Chess.net, my accounts are doing fine, so OS problems, or
hardware problems seem unlikely.

I think the main reason the match scores are like they are, as the E version's
book like I stated above, is _much_ better. I think the F version's book has
many holes, and the earlier book doesn't.



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