Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:29:08 06/25/01
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On June 25, 2001 at 08:44:09, Slater Wold wrote: >On June 25, 2001 at 00:22:15, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On June 24, 2001 at 23:06:09, Slater Wold wrote: >> >>>I am holding a qualifing match between ALL the top programs. The time control >>>will be 25/10 and it will be a 3 cycle Round Robin. >>> >>>The purpose of this tournament is to qualify an engine to go against several >>>2500+ GM's in the next 5-6 months. These games will also be played at 25/10. >>> >>>Each game will be played on a Dual Pentium III 1,000Mhz ~ 184MB hash. Pondering >>>will be on, and the default book will be used, at tournament levels. >> >> >>One question: what is the point of playing computers against each other, to >>choose one to play against a human? Isn't this like playing 9 holes of golf >>to choose the challenger for the world champion in the shot put? >> > >I think that is a bad analagy. You make a lot of them, but this might be your >worst yet. I think a better analagy would be, playing 18 holes of put-put golf, >to qualify for Pebble Beach. It wasn't nearly so bad an analogy as the "qualifier" is a bad qualifier. > >The honest truth is, that I want to have several big games against GM's in the >coming months, and I am unsure what the best engine would be. So I decided to >take an easy approach. Play the games like I would be playing against the GM's, >and whoever won, would play. Flip a coin. Your result will be just as accurate. If you want to find the best program to play against a human, then you should play all the programs against the same pool of humans and see which produces the best result. Any other experiment is badly flawed. > >The point of the qualifying match is only to get a contender, nothing else. save time. flip a coin. > > >Slate >> >> >> >>> >>>Engines participating will be: >>> >>>Chess Tiger 14.0 >>>Deep Fritz >>>Gambit Tiger 2.0 >>>Hiarcs 7.32 >>>Junior 6.0 >>>Nimzo 8 >>>Shredder 5 >>>Crafty 18.10 >>> >>>If Shredder, Junior, or Crafty win, the SMP versions will be used against the >>>GMs. >>> >>>As the games are played, I will post them. Probably on a website. >>> >>>Each engine will be given a deafult ELO of 2400. This is only so we can have a >>>relative average of performance. >>> >>> >>>Slate
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