Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 23:34:51 09/16/01
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On September 16, 2001 at 17:13:04, Christophe Theron wrote:
>On September 16, 2001 at 17:06:14, Christophe Theron wrote:
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>>On September 16, 2001 at 15:24:59, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
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>>>The recently published match result of 17.0-3.0 between TheKing 3.12 Utz10b vs
>>>Shredder5 UCI played under ChessBase-GUI [40/40' on K6-2 533/32 MB hash] was
>>>titled as sensational but a lot of people guessed there would something be
>>>wrong. Although 95-98 % of the moves could be reproduced in the analysis mode
>>>under the Shredder5-GUI the severe loss of Shredder5 seemed suspect. Mogens
>>>Larsen assumed a problem with the WinBoard adapter used. And after all, I must
>>>say he was right. I had played the match with the WB-adapter of 24th May 2001
>>>and this one should never be used with Shredder5 under CB-GUI.
>>>
>>>I repeated the match, this time using the WB-adapter of 23th November 2000 and
>>>obtained the following results:
>>>
>>>P3 650/32 MB hash: TheKing 3.12 Utz10b - Shredder5 [10.5-9.5] 40/40'
>>>K6-2 533/32 MB HT: TheKing 3.12 Utz10b - Shredder5 [11.5-8.5] 40'40'
>>>
>>>These results look very realistic since Shredder5 does not feel comfortabel on
>>>the slow hardware.
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>>A naive question: why don't you just assume that The King is stronger than
>>Shredder instead of calling for some obscure reason related to time controls?
>>
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>> Christophe
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>And I must add that it is already absolutely impossible to say which one is
>stronger by just looking at this result.
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>So it is even more impossible to give the slightest beginning of any conclusion
>about relative performance at different time controls.
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>Inversely, no assumed difference of relative performance at different time
>controls is needed to justify the above result...
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> Christophe
The main issue of this thread is the report of the broken WB-adapter
of May 2001. Extensive tests with several WB-engines have proved this
to be true. Among others, Dieter Buerssner has verfied this problem,
and written a lot about it. Relatively best seems to be the one from
nov-00.
Sune
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>>>Important conclusion: NEVER USE THE WB-ADAPTER OF 23TH MAY 2001 WHEN PLAYING
>>>WITH SHREDDER5 UNDER THE CB-GUI.
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>Kurt
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