Author: Harald Faber
Date: 04:32:59 04/03/98
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On April 03, 1998 at 04:20:20, Moritz Berger wrote: >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 You know that Thorsten always posts games of CST wins, no matter if this is one win out of 10, 100 or thousand games. :-))
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