Author: Bill McGaugh
Date: 21:38:00 02/21/02
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On February 22, 2002 at 00:34:40, pavel wrote: >On February 22, 2002 at 00:13:11, Bill McGaugh wrote: > >>I based my comment on the statistics...and I could be very wrong. >> >>I have played many, many thousands of games with chessmaster and altered >>personalities. If the Gui has no effect, then some chessmaster personalities >>that I have made are about 200 points better than programs like crafty and >>yace...that seems very unlikely... >> >>If you believe the SSDF list, then crafty is only a little weaker than the >>default chessmaster...about 20 points...to beat crafty at various time controls >>by 200 points is ridiculous...it might lead someone to think something is >>wrong...or some of the CM personalities are beyond any other programs by 50 >>points or more...and that isn't the case.. >> >>But...I could be very wrong...the winboard engines could be completely >>outclassed in any Gui... > > >how does that prove that the GUI has effected the programs strength? > >Since you post is based on statistics, you should also know that, according to >stats results like this is not unlikely. > >pavs Based on thousands of games?? my margin of error is about plus or minus 10 points on some of these programs...
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