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Subject: Re: Chess Tiger versus Gulko

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 11:48:55 03/21/02

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On March 21, 2002 at 06:46:08, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On March 20, 2002 at 17:46:29, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>
>>Yes but ponder on or ponder off, Fritz 7 leads both my ratinglists and you are
>>the only one i have heard of yet that has CT 14 on top of their list (of course
>>if Fritz7b is tested too), no matter what amount of games:
>
>Looking at the error margins on both of these lists, it's
>clear neither of them allows a conclusion to which program
>is better.
>
>The most likely reason is that they are too close in strength.
>
>--
>GCP

This I fully agree with!  Also I'm really only talking about Blitz.  I have
admitted that Fritz 7 is on top in my "Standard" database.  But with less than
200 games each it's not a very strong case for either program being best.  It
seems to me that as some programmers "tune" their engines they are aiming at
40/2 and the SSDF list.  I think this makes their engines not "peaked" for
blitz.  As an example, Fritz 6b is still ahead of Fritz 6e in my blitz database
although I believe Fritz 6e is stronger at 40/2. (Only my opinion based on my
database)  Also Shredder 5/6 are both down in my blitz database but much higher
in the "Standard" database.  Thus I have the "feeling" that Shredder is not a
good blitzer but tough at 40/2 (maybe for the same reason).
Jim



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