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Subject: Re: No ChessTiger for Palm on the SSDF list?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 22:40:54 05/23/02

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On May 23, 2002 at 21:11:35, stuart taylor wrote:

>On May 22, 2002 at 21:57:30, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On May 22, 2002 at 16:40:47, J. C. Boco wrote:
>>
>>>Why isn't ChessTiger for the Palm on the list?
>>>
>>> Do you need to gather more games first (if so, can you give us an estimate
>>>anyway with the universal qualifer "more games are needed"?
>>> Or was the rating just under 2000, and thus wasn't able to knock out the
>>>Sapphire II and take its place at the bottom of the list?
>>
>>
>>I can't answer for the SSDF guys, but I believe they need to have some minimum
>>amount of games played to publish a rating.
>>
>>Otherwise the error margin is too big and the reliability of the rating is not
>>serious.
>>
>>
>>
>>    Christophe
>
> From existing results, how is it looking?
>S.Taylor

Not good.

The fast searchers like chess system tal and Comet simply kill it.
I expected them to win but with results like 11-9 or 12-8.

I remember 14.5-5.5 for chess system tal and 7.5-2.5 for Comet.

It seems based on these results that palm tiger is not going to get more than
2100 sddf rating.

The next public winboard movei is going to get an option for special opening
book for long matches.

It is going to play 1.a3 in the first game,1.a4 in the next game with white and
continue in this way so it will be possible to play with it a 40 game match
against palm tiger without repeating the same game twice(some games may start
with stupid blunder like 1.e4 b5 but even in these condition palm tiger cannot
be sure of winning.

I believe that people overestimate the value of book and programs do not earn
more than 100 elo from book.

It may be interesting if someone can try a match of 40 games of programs with
their normal book against the same programs with no book except all the legal
moves in the first move when both side can use learning.

Uri



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