Author: Jeff Lischer
Date: 05:01:56 08/23/01
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On August 23, 2001 at 05:59:28, Andreas Herrmann wrote: >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 Also, Tiger was the 2nd strongest engine, but finished tied for 14th-15th in one tournament -- a tournament won by the 11th strongest SOS. Frank's experiment really highlights how *anything* can happen in short tournaments like WMCCC. Thanks for the great job Frank!
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