Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:02:48 11/28/02
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On November 28, 2002 at 14:57:27, Uri Blass wrote: >On November 28, 2002 at 14:11:07, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: > >>On November 28, 2002 at 12:29:14, Benny Antonsson wrote: >> >>>"Move Now" has been added. >>> >>>I emailed Leo and asked if I could use his page as a source in this case and I'm >>>waiting for him to reply. >> >>Thanks! >> >>I like it when I can use the Internet as it is without takeing printouts for own >>remark. >> >>Do you have any thought for the rating? >>Do there exist any formula that gives broader gap between top and bottom? >> >>The engines listed with aound 2000 could be right in blitz game, but for longer >>games it is way too high. >> >>Odd Gunnar > >I agree that the rating are wrong but I do not agree with you that the engines >near 2000 is too high(I also do not expect rating to give results against >humans). > >One problem is that the rating suggests that thinker is weaker than tscp and it >is simply nonsense. >It is the second strange thing that I find in the rating list(the first strange >thing was that I found that amateur is better than Crafty). > >It seems that the author did not care to look in the list that he published to >ask himself for every engine in the list if the rating make sense. > > >Everybody who read thinker's results know that thinker is at least 400 elo >better than tscp and the fact that old thinker was probably weaker is >irrelevant. >Everybody who follow winboard engines know that amateur is weaker than crafty >and the fact that amateur was considered to be better based on lypako's rating >list is irrelevant so in the case of crafty-amateur even not updating the list >seems to be a bad excuse. > >Uri I see that this was fixed but still amateur is ranked better than engines like Comet and I am sure that it is wrong. public Movei is also ranked too high because it seems that the rating is based on games of not public movei. Uri
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