Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:17:34 10/27/02
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On October 27, 2002 at 01:04:19, Mike S. wrote:
>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
Don't even lose your time explaining such a result.
It is simply not real, or there has been a serious setup mistake.
Christophe
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