Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 17:46:34 02/18/02
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On February 18, 2002 at 14:42:17, Albert Silver wrote:
>On February 18, 2002 at 14:25:05, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>Chess Tiger 14 is 100 points WEAKER than TheKing ??
>
>Keep in mind a few things:
>
>- The engines are playing with ponder OFF, which although ideal for a single
>machine, can seriously affect the overall result.
I don't think that any engine is handicapped by ponder=off.
At least I can say that mine is not, so this is not a valid excuse for Tiger.
>- The performance is for this event only and with varying time controls, so it
>can easily be the reverse in a next event.
On this you are right. It takes a **lot** of games to get reliable rankings.
>- The programs are only using 4 piece TBs. Christophe has already said that he
>thought Tiger's performance (he was commenting the SSDF when saying this) could
>be affected by the use of incomplete TBs.
Tiger is not handicapped by this. It would be handicapped if for example some
5-men TBs were installed and some 4-men TBs were missing.
So it's not an excuse for Tiger either.
>- The tournament's biggest purpose (unplanned) IMHO has been to show the
>strength of new settings for CM8000 showing it to be an engine of the highest
>quality suffering from less than optimal default settings.
I don't really see less than optimal settings. It's not an excuse for Tiger
either.
If you consider that the programs are handicapped because the time controls are
faster than 40/120, that one Gigabyte of hash table is not available or that
permanent brain is off, then what would you say about Chess Tiger for Palm??? :)
As far as the conditions are equal for all programs, there is no excuse for the
losers.
Actually I think Tiger does not need any of the excuses above.
The event has a statistical margin of error which explains a lot, and it could
simply be that The King 3.12 is the strongest chess engine in the world.
Christophe
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