Author: James T. Walker
Date: 11:52:37 03/21/02
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On March 21, 2002 at 10:03:14, karen Dall Lynn wrote: >On March 21, 2002 at 06:49:08, James T. Walker wrote: > >>On March 20, 2002 at 21:03:04, eric guttenberg wrote: >> >>>Jim >>> >>>I don't know which is stronger but I agree wholeheartedly with your >>>statement that the only way to test is with many games on 2 equal >>>computers. A lot of people (like myself) simply don't have 2 computers >>>and playing matches on a single machine is the only option. It can be fun >>>and can be useful for some purposes but measuring the relative strengths >>>of various chess programs should be done in the environment for which they >>>were designed. >>>For that reason I have long felt that the results you publish are among the >>>the more probative ones seen on this site. Thank you. >>> >>>eric >> >>Hello Eric, >>Thank you for your kind words. Just to gather some more data on F7 & CT14 I >>played some more Blitz games last nite. To my surprise Fritz 7 beat Chess Tiger >>14.0 very nicely by 38.5-23.5. This is the first time either one has won by >>this wide margin. But what I did was to "load up" Fritz 7. Meaning I cleared >>the Fritz 7 book and then let it learn from all my databases. This gave Fritz >>the "experience" of about 1700 games. This seems to be a clear advantage for >>Fritz since I cannot do this with Tiger in the Chesspartner GUI. I haven't had >>time to inspect the games yet so I'm still suspicious that something else may >>have been wrong. If not this is quite an eye opener. >>Jim > > >Hello > >After having many nights spent in blitz engine matches - within one computer, >ponder on/off and dealing with many engine parameters choice arrays - I came to >have the conviction that all these tests are perfectly *biased*. Also, I believe >that no one can say which one of these two - F7 or CT14 - are the best; although >I also believe that together they are the best if compared with any of the >others. Yet I suspect CT14 may be at the top, but this is rather a non-rational, >baseless guesswork. And I promised my-self to not spend a minute making home >blitz tests any further. > >Karen Well, what else does your computer have to do at night while you are sleeping?? Please don't turn it off and send it "gently into that goodnight." Jim
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