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Subject: Re: Yace 0.99.56 still the strongest amateur engine!? (Crafty 9.)

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 09:34:09 09/07/02

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On September 07, 2002 at 01:52:58, pavel wrote:

>On September 06, 2002 at 18:47:40, Peter Fendrich wrote:
>
>>>
>>>What I am saying is that, since the games are being played randomly and
>>>opponents are random.
>>>IF Shredder6 is to play another 107 games (which is the differance between the
>>>number of games played by player1 and player2) with lower rated players, and
>>>Fritz7 is to just sit there and play no games (since it already played more
>>>games), chances are (very much) that Shredder6 would cross Fritz7.
>>
>>Something is wrong here (if you aren't thinking of some specific players).
>>Shredder6 has to get relatively much better results vs lower rated players than
>>vs equal players in order to raise his rating. I can't see why it's easier to
>>raise your rating vs lower rated players than others.
>
>I see your point.
>And I understand from your post and "Maurizio De Leo's" post that it gets harder
>to achieve higher rating by winning against lower rated programs.
>I knew that.
>
>But how lower rated?
>
>I was talking about Crafty, Older versions of Fritz and some similar lower rated
>players in the SSDF.
>Their rating:
>                                         Rating
>21 Crafty 18.12/CB 256MB Athlon 1200 MHz  2613
>20 Fritz 6.0 128MB K6-2 450 MHz           2619
>
>Shredder6 rating is :
>2 Shredder 6.0 Paderb 256MB Athlon 1200   2727
>
>Rating differance around 100-110.

Ok, Shredder6 has to get about 2/3 of the games in order to keep up with his
rating.

>Enough differance not to have impact on the rating list if Shredder6 gets to win
>significant amount of games against such "lower bound" programs?

I'm still not with you here. Are you implying that:
1) The difference 110 ELO is wrong and that Shredder6 or Crafty+Fritz has errors
in their ratings?
2) The ratings are ok but Shredder6 has especially easy to play against these
two engines? (Meaning that the reusults will be better than 2/3 of the games)


>We are talking about 107 game here...

We can agree on that playing 107 games against only one player is not a good
idea. Different opponents is the Doctor's prescription....


>>>
>>>I don't think that human rating is "realistic".
>>>I don't think Kasparov is a 2800+ rated player, for what it's worth.
>>
>>...and I have no opinion really... :-)
>
>Ofcourse that was just an opinion. ;)
>
>>
>>Mvh
>>Peter



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