Author: Mike S.
Date: 22:04:19 10/26/02
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On October 27, 2002 at 00:11:02, Christophe Theron wrote: >On October 26, 2002 at 20:36:30, Dana Turnmire wrote: > >>The Genius programs have always been known in the past as top notch blitz >>programs. Mr. Lopez posted that Ruffian had beaten Genius 6.5 by a score >>of +46 =4 -0. >This score is clearly a mistake. There must be a problem in the setup of the >experiment. I know from my test that Genius 98 (very similar to -5/6/6.5 AFAIK) is still competitive *in terms of tactics* at least to the top amateur's level, except Ruffian which is near Nimzo 8 in that part IMO. But is it possible that Genius 6.5/7 is positionally inferior nowadays? Although I wouldn't believe it, considering the good reputation of Genius. OTOH, the positional part of the WM-Test(100) may indicate why that extreme result above isn't too unlikely: In the positional part of that test with 36 positions, Ruffian solved 22 - and Genius 6.5 solved only 7!! http://www.computerschach.de/test/index.htm In addition to that, we do not know if, and how many, games Genius has lost on time in that match. I wouldn't be surprised, because Auto232 on 1 computer is unusual and probably has not been tested by programmers. Regards, Michael Scheidl
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