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Subject: Re: Ply Tournament No pgn just text

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 22:32:53 05/11/01

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On May 12, 2001 at 00:49:51, Uri Blass wrote:

>On May 11, 2001 at 22:13:23, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On May 11, 2001 at 16:04:40, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On May 11, 2001 at 15:10:30, Chris Taylor wrote:
>>>
>>>>I ran this 6 ply tournament. On a PIII 733, and used Nunn Test, then all play
>>>>all.
>>>>It was a collection of Chessbase/Fritz compatable programs.
>>>>I was curious to see what would happen? I used ELOStat version 1.1b by
>>>>Frank Schubert to analyse the results.
>>>>What has suprised me is the result of Hiarcs, version 6 and 7.32....
>>>
>>>
>>>I do not see a reason to be surprised.
>>>It is known that hiarcs can see deeper than the opponents at the same depth
>>>because it does more extensions.
>>>
>>>I believe that Junior6 can also get a very good result if you add it to your
>>>tournament.
>>
>>
>>I believe Junior will get crushed.  Remember that a "ply" to junior is not
>>the same as a ply to everyone else.  6 plies to junior should compare to 3
>>normal plies for most programs...  That would lead to trouble...
>
>When I ask the chessbase engines to play tournament at fixed depth of x plies it
>give depth 2x-1 for Junior and not depth x.
>
>Uri


Then that is _also_ bogus.  Junior plies are not exactly normal plies * 2.
The bottom line is that this is worthless.  Interesting for the same program
at different plies, but worthless otherwise.



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