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Subject: Re: Draw due to lack of blockade detection...

Author: Omid David

Date: 09:02:02 10/04/02

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On October 04, 2002 at 11:57:28, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On October 04, 2002 at 11:53:09, Omid David wrote:
>
>>Aren't the ratings of top commercial and free chess engines pretty clear? By
>>playing games against these programs, you get a realistic estimate of your
>>engine's rating, don't you?
>
>You do. But you didn't say how strong it is. You only said it was '2500'.
>That number alone doesn't mean a thing.
>
>If you'd have said, if Crafty is 2525, then my engine is 2500, then
>I would have had a reference and known how strong it is. Right now,
>I don't have the faintest idea.
>

A better estimation in words would be: "somewhere between Crafty and Fritz";
though I hope to narrow the gap with the latter ;-)


>--
>GCP



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