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Subject: Re: New SSDF-List structure?

Author: Jan-Frode Myklebust

Date: 05:34:30 03/04/98

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On March 04, 1998 at 06:44:13, Peter Herttrich wrote:


>
>Then you have to test *all* versions on *all* hardware. Sigh...
>Do you really want this?
>And i guess this leads us into the old statistic discussion.
>Look at the published SSDF-result
>
>
>
>Fritz 5.0 Pentium MMX 200 MHz, 2589
>        Opponent
>                           Result
> Nimzo98 P200X
>                           9½-10½
> Rebel 9 P200X
>                            14-6
> MCP 7 P200MMX
>                            26-19
> Genius5 P200X
>                             9-9
> Shred 2 P200X
>                           6½-3½
> Rebel 8.0 P90
>                            28-7
> Junior 4 P90
>                           28½-6½
> SPARC 20 MHz
>                           11½-3½
>
>What will say us this result? Nothing, because the hardware is not
>comparable in every case. Only the single-results against the same
>hardware are relevant.

OK, look at these results then:

      1.
        Yona Kosashvili
                                         6
      2.
        Yasser Seirawan
                                        5,5
        Johan van Mil
                                        5,5
      4.
        KALLISTO
                                        4,5
        REBEL
                                        4,5
        Ye Rongguang
                                        4,5
        John van der Wiel
                                        4,5
        Lembitt Oll
                                        4,5
        CHESSMASTER 5000
                                        4,5
        Gert Jan de Boer
                                        4,5
    11.
        ZUGZWANG
                                         4
        DRAGON
                                         4
CILKCHESS
                                         4
        NIMZO
                                         4
        ZARKOV
                                         4
        Gennadi Timoshchenco
                                         4
        Friso Nijboer
                                         4
        Erik Hoeksema
                                         4
        THE KING
                                         4
        Jonathan Speelman
                                         4
        Rini Kuijf
                                         4
        CHESSICA
                                         4
        GANDALF
                                         4
        Larry Christiansen
                                         4
        David Bronstein
                                         4
        HIARCS

What will this result tell us? Nothing, because the hardware is not
comparable in *any* case?



-janfrode

(results are 12. AEGON, final standings after 6 rounds)



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