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Subject: Can an amateur program win a world championchip ? ... An experiment !

Author: Frank Quisinsky

Date: 02:34:51 07/02/01


Hi there,

at the moment I make a little experiment and created a webpage to this
experiment. At the moment is the webpage only in German available.

Amateure contra Profis under:
http://amateurschach.in-trier.de/schach/cbase/experiment.htm

The question is:
Can an amateur program win a world championchip?

I will here plays 20 tourneys swiss system with 16 programs and 9 rounds.
The same programs / versions with 40 moves in 10 minutes. Furthermore, without
tablebases (I believe this is also interesting).

In the last days I play a test tournament, only to see different configurations.

T-01:
http://amateurschach.in-trier.de/dia/t-01.jpg
http://amateurschach.in-trier.de/dia/t-01.zip (games in CBH).

Crafty 18.10 with a very good result but the first 3 programs are professionals.
I think that maybe in 5% the amateurs can win the WM, but the reality is that
maybe 0.1% amateurs can win a tournament.

Christoph Fieberg have for years written a little program for calculating the
probability. Christoph wrote in CSS Forum a lot of interesting things about
statistics.

In the next few weeks I add all 20 tourneys with statistics on this page.

Have a nice day ...

Best
Frank



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