Author: David Dahlem
Date: 07:40:56 06/09/03
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On June 09, 2003 at 00:50:29, Mike S. wrote: Thanks Mike Very interesting test! I notice an error in one of the opening lines posted at this site. It's position 5, and the line is shown below. Sizilianisch 1. e2-e4 c7-c5 2. Sg1-f3 d7-d4 3. d2-d4 c5xd4 4. Sf3xd4 5. Sg8-f6 Sb1-c3 d7-d4 is an illegal move, it is impossible to move a pawn 3 squares. :-) Regards Dave >Recently it has been critized that SSDF doesn't test King 3.23 (yet), it has >been discussed, explained why not, etc.etc. > >(Purists of 40/2h shouldn't continue to read :-)) > >I think nowadays, 10m+10s can provide a perfectly valid comparison too. On this >rating list created by Mr. Klaus Wlotzka for CSS Magazine, > >http://www.computerschach.de/rangliste/ > >(For the details of the test conditions, click "Testbedingungen" in the menu.) > >You can see King 3.23 has achieved rank #4 just behind Fritz, Shredder and >Tiger. King is running with Sel. 12 there (and 128 MB hash, rest default), so I >guess it could do a few points better with additional setting changes, i.e. >higher king safety. OTOH, I doubt that King could jump to rank #3 by that, which >is 17 Elo away. 17 Elo is a big distance nowadays in top computer chess. > >King 3.23 is 71 (!) points ahead of current #5, List 5.04! > >Let's not argue about 2 points more or less on the top :-) > >(Junior 8 is the next to appear in the list; who can guess it's ranking?) > >That rating list is based on 20-game-matches using a set of 10 very short >opening variants, with a total of 400 games of each engine. > >You'll notice that the main list includes only one recent version of an engine, >each (unlike SSDF). But there's an "ewige Rangliste" too, see menu, which >includes all matches played so far to allow easy performance comparison with the >predecessor. > >Very interesting is too, when you click "Übersicht" (=overview) in the menu, >where a comparison with the performance in 2m+2s blitz is given, using arrows. >For example, here you can quickly see that Hiarcs 8 was much better in that >short blitz (more than 50 Elo), while Shredder 7, Tiger 15 and List 5.04 were >better on the medium time control (20...50 Elo). > >Regards, >M.Scheidl
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