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Subject: Re: CCL results 28-05-98

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 00:44:04 05/29/98

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On May 29, 1998 at 01:13:10, Jouni Uski wrote:

>On May 28, 1998 at 17:16:42, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>Two matches just finished.
>>
>>Mchess 7.1 - Shredder 2.0    1  4  5   3.0 - 7.0
>
>There is quite a difference: In SSDF match Mchess WON Shredder 2 23,5 -
>16,5!
>Explanation??

No, anything can happen!

Some reasons might be:

* The games in CCL are played on much faster hardware. I don't know
about MChess but Shredder benefits a lot from more cpu power.

* Booklearning. Shredder2 has no learning features at all (this will
change in Shredder3!) which could be a major problem if a long match is
played on one computer against a program that knows about learning. I
don't know if this holds for the SSDF games as I haven't checked them.

* Only very few games are played. If you want to have statistically
relevant results you need much more games!

* Both programs are able to play decent chess!

Pick your favorite reason :-)

Hope this helps
    Stefan (author of Shredder)



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