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Subject: Re: Which is strongest tactical, and which is strongest knowledge programs?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 23:09:32 09/02/01

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On September 02, 2001 at 23:14:03, Chessfun wrote:

>On September 02, 2001 at 18:52:22, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On September 02, 2001 at 17:44:33, Chessfun wrote:
>>
>>>On September 02, 2001 at 17:30:33, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 02, 2001 at 14:56:45, Chessfun wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On September 02, 2001 at 08:59:43, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On September 02, 2001 at 07:59:22, stuart taylor wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On September 02, 2001 at 05:10:46, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On September 02, 2001 at 04:53:31, Steve Maughan wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>IMHO, if it's tactics you're trying to spot then you should use: Fritz, Goliath,
>>>>>>>>>ChessMaster possibly Nimzo.  For positional analysis, Shredder, Junior 7 and
>>>>>>>>>Tiger.  For all round play I like Gambit Tiger and Junior 7.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Steve
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I believe that Deep Fritz is the best.
>>>>>>>>I believe that Deep Fritz is the best in tactics except finding
>>>>>>>>mates(chessmaster is the best in this task)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I believe that Deep fritz is in similiar level to other engines in
>>>>>>>>positional understanding and there are cases when it is better and
>>>>>>>>cases when it is worse.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Uri
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Uri,
>>>>>>>So you don't agree about Golliath.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>And you say that Gambit Tiger is not exactly the very best in tactics alone or
>>>>>>>in positional understanding alone, even if it will top the next ssdf list (i.e.
>>>>>>>wins slightly more games)?
>>>>>>>What then is the additional ingredient that (it seems) GT might have?
>>>>>>>S.Taylor
>>>>>>
>>>>>>1)If gambittiger can top the ssdf then I may change my mind.
>>>>>
>>>>>Looking at it's current score v Junior 7 and Shredder 5.32
>>>>>it's totally possible it will top the next list.
>>>>>But why should it's position relative to #1 or #2 on the SSDF
>>>>>influence your opinion?.
>>>>
>>>>Data may influence my opinion.
>>>>The difference between the first place and the second place may be also
>>>>important for my opinion.
>>>
>>>The current difference is 3 rating points.
>>>I don't see how a gain of 4 points for Gambit could influence
>>>an opinion.
>>
>>1)By this logic a gain of 400 elo also cannot influence my opinion because
>>I can look at a gain of 400 elo as 100 gains of 4 elo when no gain of 4 elo can
>>influence my opinion.
>
>That makes no sense at all to me.
>Currently you know how they are rated and I don't see how
>a future SSDF listing Gambit 1 point up on Deep Fritz could
>make for any re-evaluation of someones opinion.

I said that it may change my opinion.
may change does not mean that if tiger will be in the top by 1 elo
I am going to  believe clearly different things but 4 elo rating difference may
influence opinions and here is the proof.

Suppose A's rating is getting higher every month by 4 elo.

After 100 monthes the A's rating is 400 elo better.
I am sure that your opinion is going to be different after 100 monthes so it is
clear that an 4 elo difference can influence opinions.

I agree that the influence is small in that case but saying only that tiger is
number 1 does not mean that it is 1 elo better than Fritz and it may be also
20 elo better than Fritz so I do not know how much it can influence my opinion.

Uri



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