Author: Uri Blass
Date: 11:04:17 01/03/03
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On January 03, 2003 at 13:57:21, Albert Silver wrote: >>>I realize that, since I have done several mini matches at different time >>>controls between these two programs and Fritz 8 is definitively stronger than >>>Ruffian 1.0.1, but Ruffian will definitively end up in 3rd or 4th place on SSDF. >>> >>>Pichard >> >>I can add that even in case that Ruffian had the same strength as the best >>commercial programs there is still a reason to buy the commercial programs. >> >>people who use engines for correspondence games may be interested in opinion of >>more than one engine because a second engine may help them in positions that one >>engine does not understand. >> >>Uri > >This is only useful if you are capable of understanding the position better than >the engine, otherwise how are you going to say which one doesn't understand the >position and which one does? > > Albert There are other ways. suppose that one engine shows a positive score of almost one pawn advantage but the score goes down every iteration when the second engine has a stable score that is close to draw. In this case I will trust more the second engine. The first engine has not realistic evaluation because I expect positive score to go up and not to go down. I have also an example from my correspondence game against Luba kristol when I decided not to trust Deep Fritz6 but to trust gandalf. One of the reasons was the fact that the score of Fritz went down every iteration. Uri
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