Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 14:55:27 08/25/02
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On August 25, 2002 at 15:09:33, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On August 25, 2002 at 14:45:37, Alexander Kure wrote: > >>Crafty and SOS were tested with the Fritz 6 book (general.ctg from young >>talents). Goliath i can't remember. > >Thanks for the correction. I was under the impression general.ctg was >an autotmatically generated book. > >If that's true, then it's likely Crafty and SOS are overrated in SSDF. The conclusion to me is, that amateur engines should not be tested by SSDF because a fair comparison is impossible. Either the play with the same book as the commercial engines, then they have an "unfair" advantage. Or they play with a private book which results in an ELO loss of about 100 points (if it's true what Alex said, and I don't doubt it). An amateur does not have the resources to generate a high class book nor will he be going to pay a chess expert for this. So whatever procedure SSDF will choose, it can't be fair. That's a real tragedy. Uli > >-- >GCP
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