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Subject: Re: AP downloads, ratings and the latest results now online ...

Author: Andreas Herrmann

Date: 02:59:28 08/23/01

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On August 23, 2001 at 00:20:20, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 22, 2001 at 21:35:14, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>
>>Hi there,
>>
>>my emperiment "Amateurs vs. Professionals" is now over (the right time, WM is
>>running ... good timing :-)) ).
>>
>>You can find all "AP" results in a table in my News Ticker.
>>You can find all 1.440 games in CBH and PGN and a rating list (all engines are
>>playing 180 games).
>>
>>I have a lot of fun with the AP tournaments, maybe I more fun if Gandalf won
>>more tourneys :-))
>>
>>Amateurs vs. Professionals:
>>http://www.amateurschach.de/schach/cbase/experiment.htm
>>
>>All results available in my News Ticker:
>>http://www.amateurschach.de/news.htm
>>
>>...
>>
>>Have now a nice latest WM day.
>>
>>Best
>>Frank
>
>The result prove that the professionals are clearly better than the amatuers.
>The best amatuer Goliath Light got less points than the worse proffesional
>Nimzo8.
>
>It seems that in a tournament of 180 games the amatuers have no practical chance
>to win.
>
>Uri

Yes in 180 game tournaments (the statistical error is very low), but in a 9 game
tournament like the WMCCC 2001 there is nearby all possible. In Frank's test,
the amateurs wins 3 of 20 tournaments. In his tournaments Fritz is the strongest
engine, but it wins only 4 or 5 times.

Andreas




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