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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:10:34 07/02/01

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On July 02, 2001 at 05:34:51, Frank Quisinsky wrote:

>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?

How about looking at history.  Amateurs won the 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1986,
1989 world computer chess titles, for starters. :)




>
>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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