Author: Peter Berger
Date: 11:12:47 05/01/01
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On May 01, 2001 at 13:52:16, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 01, 2001 at 11:51:06, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >I don't believe this test is worth a can of beans for predicting a program's >rating. Me neither and I don't think this is the main purpose of a test like this one - the first numbers look like they are in a range that makes _some_ sense , that's all . But it _does_ say something about the understanding of opening play of the program IMHO . A few of them are quite tricky ; look at 22 for example or the one with the minority attack - a theme few programs understand very well . The rating part is only for fun - compairing the results of different programs is interesting though IMHO - especially looking for those a program/all programs can't understand at all . Larry ran this very test through Cray Blitz at one of the last ACM >events. We solved almost every position in 0 seconds. That blew his formula >so badly he went back and changed every 0 second time to .5 seconds, since >CB didn't display fractions of a second, and he reasoned that everything up to >but not including one second would show up as zero. Wow , congrats ; nearly all of them in 0 seconds , that's incredible - I'll definitely try Crafty next. pete > >Predicting ratings like this simply _can't_ work...
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