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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