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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