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Subject: Re: If programs are only IM strength, why bother to play Kramnik??

Author: Chris Carson

Date: 15:19:53 05/13/01

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On May 13, 2001 at 17:18:13, Chris Carson wrote:

>On May 13, 2001 at 17:08:55, Joshua Lee wrote:
>
>>500 games is not an arbitrary number, this is the number of Games at a minimum
>>on the SSDF list where the ratings were steady +- 30 instead of +- 50 or 60 so
>>there goes one of your assumptions the other I know you are not a part of SSDF,
>>That's number two and as far as your example goes those GM's have most likely
>>played more than 500 Games so 1 tournament proves nothing ask around i am sure
>>the people in here will agree that you can't tell much by just 1 tournament.
>>But you can believe what you want. Like i said Junior is too High there is no
>>way for example that it can be so close in rating to 9x faster hardware if you
>>believe that i would worry think about it it is like saying junior on a 286 is
>>100pts below junior on 450Mhz????????????????????? Hello. Like i said before it
>>is only 1 tournament but still you can tell the ssdf results are wrong just by
>>puting this to mind , junior has played withing the ssdf rating pool which
>>includes some games against humans still with a decent margin of error and has
>>recieved a rating of 2523 which is almost 100pts too high still on 450 which is
>>9 times slower than an 8 way 700Mhz machine which is trippling the speed twice
>>or 90 x 2 180 like before how much memory did deep junior use this does make a
>>difference. I believe SSDF is wrong and i am sure most people can do the
>>research and find out the same if they don't believe me. FYI the examples from
>>tony's page were not used in the ssdf's rating pool so only 183 games are being
>>used but you would be right about one thing if they used those games they would
>>have the so called arbitrary number (500 games)i mentioned but ofcourse you
>>didn't say that.
>
>I stand by my previous posts.  :)
>
>Best Regards,
>Chris Carson

Joshua,

The calibration games on Tony's page are the 337 (plenty) Human vs programs the
SSDF used.  I think they also used the additional 183 (plenty) to re-calibrate,
so a total of 520 (plenty of games).

Also, the following are the ratings:

1. DJ6 8x700  H vs C  2702
2. DJ6 450MHZ SSDF    2595
3. DJ6 450MHZ H vs C  2519

The bottom two SSDF and actual DJ6 vs human games are pretty close and
expected (similiar to how humans perform at different tournaments as
I have shown in previous posts).  Only 76 points difference not
unresonable a difference, humans have a larger difference than this
on a regular basis, just look at any ot the TWIC issues or the next
tournament result.

The 8x700 is not 9 times faster than the 450 and
there is almost 200 poinst difference (100 from the SSDF).  This looks
very reasonable to me.

So again, I stand by my previous posts, but believe what you want.  :)

Best Regards,
Chris Carson



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