Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:55:25 03/24/02
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On March 24, 2002 at 15:07:09, Peter Berger wrote:
>The time for the "big" match has come - the first game will be played today :
>Sunday, 24/03/2002, 4 PM EST at ICC (=server time) ( http://www.chessclub.com).
>
>The contenders:
>
>Gaviota 0.30, the young and rising amateur chessprogram star from Argentina
>(more information and download at http://www.msu.edu/~ballicor/gav/)
>on a fast AMD Athlon 1.33 GHz
>
>against its very programmer:
>
>FM Miguel A. Ballicora
>
>Gaviota will play with handle gaviota(C) ( thanks to Andrew Mc Farland aka
>"Zek", ICC admin). Game number will be announced in channel 64 when the game
>starts ("+ch 64").
>To observe the game type "obs gaviota" or "follow gaviota" to be sent to the
>board once the game has started - you can connect and watch as a guest if you
>don't have a handle.
>
>Program and human will battle it out in a 4 game match with 30/5 time control (
>game in 30 minutes with 5 secs increment/move).
>
>There will be one game today - the next rounds will be announced soon.
>
>A tough match is to be expected as the opponents might be of quite similar
>strength ?!
I think that gaviota is a better player at the time control that they are going
to play but Miguel has the advantage of knowing the opponent so I am not sure
about the result.
>
>FIDE lists Miguel with Ballicora, Miguel f ARG 2245, but he says he hasn't
>played seriously for a longer time.
>
>Gaviota has participated in a few computer tournaments.
>
>Andreas Herrmann lists Gaviota with 50.( 49.) Gaviota 0.3.0 2230 N 219 109 26 84
>122.0 55.7 2189 N in his rating list.
I do not trust rating lists for computers and an experiment in the winboard
forum showed that programs simply get worse rating than the rating they deserve.
I think that you should add 100 elo to the rating of programs in Andreas
Herrmann list to get a better estimate for their real rating at 120/40 against
humans who are not prepared to take advantage of the weaknesses of the spesific
programs.
Uri
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