Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 15:32:34 11/05/02
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On November 05, 2002 at 08:23:37, Rajen Gupta wrote: >On November 05, 2002 at 07:07:29, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>On November 05, 2002 at 04:48:35, Rajen Gupta wrote: >> >>>niggemann chess seems to imply that it is a single processor version:i would be >>>quite willing to bet that this f8 is nothing more than a single processor df7. >>>perhaps a tiny bit different but not much stronger. i doubt whether 3 months is >>>sufficient to actually improve the strength significantly. quite sure that >>>chessbase is trying to cash in on the krmanik match and reach out to the masses >>>with "f8" and the "bahrain engine" >>> >>>rajen >> >>Another thing to consider is that Fritz 8 could Not necessarily be stronger than >>DF7 against other programs, simply because it was modified to play great Anti >>Human Chess. >> >>Pichard. >> >> >i doubt very much that any commercial computer chess programme would ever be >released with a default setting that is anything other than optimised to play >against other computers because that is how 99.99% of the testing is done. the >cry "but it is stronger against humans" just wont wash because that would be >impossible to prove; and also i am quite certain that even old progs such as for >example genius 3/4 on current hardware would be a match for probably anyone >other than a gm; on the other hand proving relative strength against other progs >is much easier. >quite likely though that there maybe an anti human setting. > >rajen > Isn't that the case with Rebel, in which it is one of the strongest programs that plays against human, but when it is tested on the SSDF it is NOT ranked among the first three programs on the SSDF rating list. Therefore, making a program that plays strong against humans not necessarily will be maximized to play the strongest against other programs. Pichard. Pichard.
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