Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 15:46:56 04/17/02
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On April 17, 2002 at 12:05:18, stuart taylor wrote: >On April 17, 2002 at 09:48:33, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>On April 17, 2002 at 09:25:48, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >> >>>I see nothing wrong with this result. It was just one match over 40 games. A >>>similar match may bring complete other results, maybe more in favour of Fritz7. >>>Regards >>>Kurt >> >>You are correct Kurt, plus any of the three top programs on the SSDF are >>considered equally even in strength, even if the margin of rating calculated by >>the SSDF is withing 30 points since, if you noticed lately that once Chess Tiger >>came on first place, then it ended in second and there is a chance that it will >>finish on first or second place. To me to get a better estimate on the >>performance of all these programs, it will be necessary to adjust the humans vs >>programs performance rating into the equation. >> >>Pichard. > >I never said that the results were not normal. But somehow, I don't seem to be >speaking the same language as everyone here. > I'm saying that time after time when Junior 7 plays a match with Fritz 7, Fritz >loses many games near the beginning, but then catches up and overtakes. EVERY >TIME (almost). That almost proves that the reason is because of the learning >function. > But this time, the samwe thing happened at the beginning, and then Fritz >overtook Junior as usual, yes, but THIS time, it happened again it was said >above, that Junior was catching up again towards the end. Usually it's the other >way round. So why was that? > Maybe the learning function was reset for Fritz, so it had to start learning >again? THAT was my question. >S.Taylor In my opinion your interesting observations and the results may be accidentally. Please study the results of a match between Gandalf 4.32g and Program_X [I am a beta tester of X] to show what I mean, how about the learning effect of Gandalf in this match? Gandalf 4.32g vs Program X Games 1-10 3.0-7.0 [win program X] Total 3.0-7.0 for program X Games 11-20 6.5-3.5 [win Gandalf] Total 9.5-10.5 for program X Games 21-30 5.0-5.0 [draw] Total 14.5-15.5 for program X Games 31-40 3.5-6.5 [win program X] Total 18.0-22.0 for program X Games 41-50 4.5-5.5 [win program X] Total 22.5-27.5 for program X Games 51-60 3.0-7.0 [win program X Total 25.5-34.5 for program X Games 61-70 5.0-5.0 [draw] Total 30.5-39.5 for program X Games 71-80 8.0-2.0 [win Gandalf] Total 38.5-41.5 for program X Games 81-90 7.0-3.0 [win Gandalf] Total 45.5-44.5 for Gandalf Games 91-100 5.5-4.5 [win Gandalf] Final match result 51.0-49.0 for Gandalf
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