Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:46:18 10/25/02
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On October 25, 2002 at 04:31:59, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote: >On October 25, 2002 at 02:53:19, José Carlos wrote: > >> >> Nonsense comparison. >> A football team changes players everyday, while a chess program is a single >>and independent entity. Fritz 4 and Fritz 7 are two different programs; >>computing their rating together is like computing two tenis players rating >>together: nonsense. >> >> José C. > >I don't agree with that. Fritz 7 differs not too much from Fritz 6. Deep Fritz 7 >and Deep Fritz 6, you won't tell anybody that's "two completely different >programs". Fritz7 and Fritz6 are different programs. >Brazil can have 10 or more soccer teams to fight at FIFA's championships or >World Cups, the same for Argentina (don't really know if there are too many good >german-borned soccer players). But that obviously would make the ranking much >boring. > >My question is: WHY SSDF doesn't have at the same list Crafty 16.01 - 16.19 + >17.x + 18.x + 19... ? what's the difference in rating points between them? > >I don't see where the nonsense is. >For me it's nonsense to have a list with 10 Fritzes and call that a serious >list. If you don't play Fritz a x Fritz b you're not a serious chess player; but >if you do and Fritz n wins rating points you're inflating the rating. Fritza is better than Fritzb in the rating list thanks to it's result against other programs and not thanks to Fritz-Fritz matches. So the >whole thing is messed up, I think. Do that at a chess server and you'll be in >the abuser list! > >SSDF list, is it a _S_hredder/_D_eep _F_ritz list? > >Can't believe there's just to much marketing involved just to sell Fritz. > >Why not Century, Century 2, 3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4, XP ? Century was not tested because it is a dos program and does not support the autoplayer correctly. > >Will SSDF test Ruffian? What about Yace? I think that they will. > >What's the interest in "R30 v 2.5", with a gap of almost 200 points below >Crafty? Different people have different interests. > >Why the hell CHESSMASTER _NEVER_, I mean _NEVER_ gets to run with Athlon 1200 ? Chessmaster also had problems in supporting the autoplayer. I do not know about CM9000 but I do not believe that they test it not on Athlon1200. > >Just questions made by many people that were never answered. Don't tell that's >because "fixing the hardware and playing many games with it, you'll know the >strengh". Please give CM 9000, Hiarcs and Nimzo a good hardware, point. Please >retire that R30 v 2.5, it's completely obsolete. > >A. Ponti Hiarcs8 got the A1200. The rule is that new programs get the best hardware. Uri
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