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Subject: Re: 3 computer chess myths: which one has proven to be true?

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 00:20:17 04/23/02

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On April 23, 2002 at 02:49:53, José Carlos wrote:

>>These ratinglists are completely seperate (AFAIK), so we can't be sure one list
>>hasn't "drifted" up or down relative to the others.
>>
>>If a program scores worse in in bullet than in Blitz (against humans that is),
>>then I suspect the program has some sort of time management problem, for the
>>advantage over humans in bullet seems very large.
>>
>>-S.
>
>  Sure, but nobody is speaking of perfect programs, nor perfect humans. Both
>have strong and weak points. There're many programs and, when we speak about
>programs, in general, all of them should count.
>
>  José C.

You can always find an engine that behaves unexpected in some regard.
I don't know if Averno is a good representative of how programs behave in
bullet, I think the general tendency is quite the opposite.
Here is a snap from FICS:
       Blitz                   Standard                 Lightning

   1. LittleGoliat 2680     1. ChessTigress 2600     1. pecable      2805
   2. ChessTigress 2657     2. LittleGoliat 2593     2. LittleGoliat 2803
   3. pecable      2643     3. Gandalph     2586     3. Artificial   2794
   4. DeepImpact   2642     4. ezcape       2580     4. baltica      2760
   5. Koibito      2634     5. baltica      2556     5. Tartessos    2756
   6. vippcomputer 2624     6. DeepThoughts 2547     6. JahnFeig     2749
   7. Topas        2607     7. Hera         2530     7. Gandalph     2720
   8. cchess       2587     8. Kec          2528     8. Gigabot      2714
   9. Angledust    2569     9. JadeiteMech  2518     9. Obnoxious    2670
  10. Artificial   2568    10. cchess       2506    10. JadeiteMech  2666


(Here Lightning is bullet and Blitz is lightning)

-S.



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