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Subject: Re: Congratulation for chesstiger(better performance than shredder in wmccc)

Author: Mark Young

Date: 07:34:38 08/24/01

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On August 24, 2001 at 10:12:50, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

>On August 24, 2001 at 10:04:45, Mark Young wrote:
>
>>On August 24, 2001 at 09:37:13, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>>
>>>On August 24, 2001 at 08:52:51, Mark Young wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 24, 2001 at 07:58:08, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On August 24, 2001 at 07:51:16, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On August 24, 2001 at 07:29:21, Günther Simon wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On August 24, 2001 at 07:15:30, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On August 24, 2001 at 07:06:51, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Here are the results by
>>>>>>>>>elostat program
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>You can see that shredder is only 3th place micro based on the performance.
>>>>>>>>>Shredder is the world Micro champion by definition but Tiger and Rebel had a
>>>>>>>>>better performance.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>1 Deep Junior 7                  : 2745  228 281     9    88.9 %   2384   22.2 %
>>>>>>>>>2 Quest (DeepFritz)              : 2550  266 169     9    66.7 %   2430   44.4 %
>>>>>>>>>3 Chess Tiger 14.6 Gambit Tiger  : 2499  291 229     9    55.6 %   2461   22.2 %
>>>>>>>>>4 Crafty 18.10X                  : 2467  291 165     9    55.6 %   2428   44.4 %
>>>>>>>>>5 Rebel                          : 2466  291 229     9    55.6 %   2428   22.2 %
>>>>>>>>>6 Shredder                       : 2466  266 249     9    66.7 %   2346   22.2 %
>>>>>>>>>7 Goliath                        : 2421  291 165     9    55.6 %   2382   44.4 %
>>>>>>>>>8 Gromit 3.9.5                   : 2364  278 201     9    61.1 %   2285   33.3 %
>>>>>>>>>9 Ferret                         : 2359  291 229     9    55.6 %   2320   22.2
>>>>>>>>>%10 Gandalf 5.0                   : 2310  291 229     9    55.6 %   2271   22.2
>>>>>>>>>%
>>>>>>>>>11 ParSOS                        : 2256  291 229     9    55.6 %   2217   22.2 %
>>>>>>>>>12 Diep                          : 2227  165 291     9    44.4 %   2265   44.4 %
>>>>>>>>>13 IsiChess X                    : 2166  201 278     9    38.9 %   2245   33.3 %
>>>>>>>>>14 Tao                           : 2165  229 291     9    44.4 %   2203   22.2 %
>>>>>>>>>15 Ruy Lopez                     : 2118  366 266     9    33.3 %   2238    0.0 %
>>>>>>>>>16 Pharaon                       : 2082  169 266     9    33.3 %   2202   44.4 %
>>>>>>>>>17 SpiderGirl                    : 2014  213 255     9    27.8 %   2180   33.3 %
>>>>>>>>>18 XiNiX                         : 1724  400 108     9     5.6 %   2216
>>>
>>>
>>>LOOK AT THE ERROR MARGINS ! ELOstat is in perfect agreement with everything.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 11.1 %
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>congratulation also for the Deep Junior team for winning the event convincingly
>>>>>>>>>when the difference from the second place is almost 200 elo and the hardware
>>>>>>>>>explain less than 70 elo difference.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Uri
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I can add that I think that it may be a better idea to use elostat to decide
>>>>>>>>about the world champion in the future.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I know that a lot of people are going to disagree but it is my opinion.
>>>>>>>>I prefer a complicated method that does more justive and not a simple method.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Uri
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Sorry Uri - but this is really nonsens.
>>>>>>>You cant use ELO-Stat on a Swiss Tournament with 9 rounds as
>>>>>>>it is described by the author. ELO-Stat is designed to calculate
>>>>>>>ratings out of a pool of unknown rated progs with a very very lot
>>>>>>>of games.
>>>>>>>Therefor if you take a closer look at your table you would see that
>>>>>>>the error margin is at least 435!pts (Pharaon) and max 632!! (RuyLopez).
>>>>>>>And would you really believe Parallel SOS to be at 2256? :))
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The question is not which program is better.
>>>>>>competitions of 9 rounds are not supposed to answer this question.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The question is which program did better result.
>>>>>>The elostat answer this question better than the ranking
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The rating is also based on average of 2300 if I remember corectly and should
>>>>>>not be compared with humans.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>You must be a strong Tigerfan to post this very unlike post, as it
>>>>>>>is diametral to all your previous posts about stats?!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I do not see contradiction with previous posts of myself.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>(Btw hasnt Shredder won against Tiger or am I out of memory?)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Yes
>>>>>>Shredder won against tiger.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Uri
>>>>>
>>>>>I can add congratulations for crafty for being the best amatuer.
>>>>>I here that Gromit won the title of the best amatuer and it is unfair because
>>>>>Crafty was more than 100 elo better
>>>>>
>>>>>I know that Gromit beated Crafty in the last round but it does not change the
>>>>>fact that Crafty was more than 100 elo better based on elostat.
>>>>>
>>>>>Uri
>>>>
>>>>A nine round Swiss tournament to determine the computer world championship in my
>>>>mind makes the title world champion a joke.  This is nothing more then another
>>>>computer chess tournament. To draw any conclusions from this one tournament and
>>>>then declare the winner to be the world champion makes me sick. If the title of
>>>>computer world champion means the winner is declared the strongest computer
>>>>program.
>>>
>>>It's just the same with human tournaments. The world champion is determined as
>>>the winner of a special tournament.
>>
>>Not Correct, yes they play tournaments, but never using the Swiss tournament
>>system.
>>
>>>
>>>That's an exciting and interesting way to determine the champion and I seriously
>>>can't see what's wrong with this.
>>
>>You don't see a problem with an open tournament with only 9 rounds to declar a
>>world champion? No Human Champion has ever been declared this way.
>
>Yes, every single year the Junior World Champion is declared after
>a swiss tournament. In fact, preliminary qualifiers for the FIDE title
>are also swiss tournaments. The Panamerican just finished with 140+ strong
>players (Yermolinsky won).

That is the point, you play qualifiers not 1 open tournament to declar the Human
World Champion. So you must play much more then 9 rounds in one *open*
Tournament.

>
>Regards,
>Miguel



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