Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 16:21:46 11/08/01
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On November 08, 2001 at 11:58:08, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 08, 2001 at 02:48:14, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: > >>On November 07, 2001 at 21:53:28, James T. Walker wrote: >> >>>Here are 12 games played at 40/40 minutes. Crafty played on an Athlon 1.4G and >>>CM8K played on an Athlon 1.2G. Final score was 6.5-5.5 for CM8K. After 70 >>>games at 40/40 or 40/60 it looks like Crafty 18.12(K7) is not as strong as >>>Crafty 18.10. I wonder if others are having similar results? >>> >> >>Result after 6 rounds are CM8000-Crafty 4-2 >> >>I Checked a little on this in SSDF's list. >>Result after 6 round is in brackets. >> >>CM8000-DeepFritz 7.5-32.5 (3-3) >>CM8000-Junior 5 13.5-26.5 (2.5-3.5) >>CM8000-Hiarcs7.32 23.5-16.5 (4.5-1.5) >> >>Is the SSDF's rating only valid for match play between computers? >>Or is it a ratinglist on how good the booklearning is? > > >Simple. When a "contest" is held, using a set of known rules and so forth, >human nature is to take advantage of the contest rules themselves, as much as >you try to take advantage of normal chess rules. In long matches between two >programs, book learning is _the_ edge. In tournaments, it has no influence to >speak of. So SSDF ratings don't say a lot about how the top 10 programs on >the list would end up in (say) a round-robin tournament. > Then you could ask "What is the purpose of this list?". The rules are not clear defined on their page, but they say in the faq: "Our goal is to always play matches of 20 games between two computers/programs under test". But the chairman talk about tournament games in his comment. Since the list are used like the FIDE list, maybe it had been better if they arranged playing too like FIDE. Instead of playing matches they could perhaps played double round robin or something like that. Maybe had a 'first saturday' tournament for computers. Odd Gunnar >> >>The exception that confirm the rules is: >>CM8000-ChessTiger 15.5-24.5 (1-5) >> >>Odd Gunnar
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