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Subject: Re: Idea: Computer Correspondence Chess Tournament!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 14:02:19 03/16/01

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On March 16, 2001 at 16:35:11, jonas cohonas wrote:

>On March 16, 2001 at 15:53:23, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On March 16, 2001 at 15:17:52, jonas cohonas wrote:
>>
>>>On March 16, 2001 at 13:19:09, Laurence Chen wrote:
>>>
>>>>Sorry, the correct URL is http://www.playchess.de
>>>
>>>I am participating in a tournament on www.playchess.de at the moment under the
>>>Handle G9_us, and the playchess is really cool, you have 5 days for the first
>>>move, then you get 1 day per move made. I am using Gandalf_432h, and two wins so
>>>far out of two possible.
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>Jonas
>>
>>I see almost no information about the programs.
>>
>>There is one name that is shredder in the tournament that G9_us is playing so I
>>guess that Shredder is playing but I do not know which version and which
>>hardware.
>>
>>the 2 wins of G9_us(gandalf) are against programs that everybody won so I guess
>>that they are weak programs.
>>
>>Uri
>
>I never said they where strong infact i dont even know which programs they are,
>my score was not the point of the post, but the fact that www.playchess.de is a
>cool place to test programs against eachother, but i guess if i made a post here
>saying that, i had three cups of coffee today and #1 cup was fantastic #2 cup
>was good and #3 cup was average
>i would get a response claiming that the coffeemaker responsible for cup 2 and 3
>did not have the same hardware as cup one, and the cB/s (coffebeans/sec) was not
>as high as in cup one so my coffee experience that day would not be a valid
>result, because i ONLY had 3 cups tsk tsk tsk. Take it easy URI the world will
>still turn if i beat a waeker prog. Assuming they where weaker and Gandalf beat
>them and you where not there to point it out, that they where weaker, would
>Gandalf then have won???

The point is not that they were weaker than gandalf but that they were weaker
than other programs.

They scored 0 points against other programs so we cannot learn from the results
if gandalf is better or weaker than the other programs and we can learn only
that the 2 programs that it won are probably the weakest programs in the
tournament.

When I read that gandalf won 2 games I guessed that the results suggest that
gandalf is not only better than the 2 programs that it won but also better than
other programs.

I understood that My guess was wrong after reading more information.

Uri



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