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Subject: Re: only a nice game of c.-chess...

Author: Moritz Berger

Date: 01:20:20 04/03/98

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On April 02, 1998 at 21:37:25, Thorsten Czub wrote:
> Moritz Berger once calculated an ELO for CSTal arround 2250 ELO.
> If Fritz5 has REALLY this high ssdf-elo, how would a match between the 2
> programs end after 30 or 50 or 100
> games ?!? I take your bets.... Moritz once told me about a match he had
> done with a very very negative score
> against cstal. I never believed these results. And - of course - was
> unable to reproduce similar results at myhome.

Of course I never claimed that CST wouldn't get an occasional draw even
against the top programs ... At 100+ ELO difference in playing strength,
most programs have trouble to get the "perfect" 100% vs. a 400 ELO
weaker opponent ... Also due to opening books ...

Let's see, at first glance I have 86 games Fritz vs. various CST
incarnations ...

+44 =28 -9 for Fritz (72%)

If you consider the fact that CST has an even bigger book than the
optional Fritz' Powerbook, the draws could almost be accounted for by
this "theoretical preparation" (since both programs don't have killer
books but use essentially compiled huge database information for their
repertoire, playing 30 moves from the book only to find themselves in a
drawn position).

Funny enough, Thorsten has those 86 games (the actual games, not just
the results, I believe I sent him even more ...) since more than 6
months ... But he "doesn't believe these results" ... Keeps me rolling
on the floor laughing ...

Moritz



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