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Subject: Re:Congrats to de Koenig? But why, pray tell - NONSENSE

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:27:32 07/25/03

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On July 25, 2003 at 07:28:52, Stefan Dias wrote:

>On July 25, 2003 at 05:47:31, Milorad Madjar wrote:
>
>>About Tournament- 7/03, 60 min +2 sec - finished:
>>
>>First : sorry for my English.
>>
>>I'm repeat:
>>My intention is not than you said ,I want see how the best (for me) The King
>>settings playing between itself and together with the best another chess
>>programes (The King 5 with 7 other chess programes) and some chess programes
>>(Ktulu, ....) as surprise.
>>
>>and
>>
>>You can find similar tournament in the forum , where you have 4 or 5 CRAFTY
>>(CRAFTY 19.03 Capablanca,....) settings and I don't see any problem about that.
>>
>>and
>>
>>the first 5 The King settings have total 37 point's, the rest (best) 5 world
>>chess programs have 30 point's :
>>The King 3.23  37 point -- (Junior 8,Fritz 8,...)  30 point.
>>Result is clear.
>>
>>and
>>
>>If I use only my settings ,The King 3.23M2v.5, you can say for me ...selfish.
>>because that I use another settings (perhaps better than my).
>>All the same, I think that The King 3.23 have big potential If we change some
>>parameteres than in original settings.Resultantes of many chess enthusiast say
>>that.
>>Only time ,how The King use, stay as big defect for this chess program.
>>The King don't know to arrange time in the game and it is big defect for this
>>excellent chess program.
>>
>>Regards
>>Milan
>
>
>You are completely right. Many people are confused with many versions of the
>same engine. To turn things clearer let´s rename them to Engine A, Engine B,
>Engine C.... and let those engines play the tournament.
>
>On the other hand all 5 TheKing engines got 37 points, and 5 other best placed
>engines got 30 pints. This arguments is the strongest one. And this fact really
>reflects the real relation of forces.
>
>The only remark I have is that I prefer one or two round robin tournament.

You need literally hundreds of games between this small of a pool of opponents
before you can make a substantial judgement.

IMO-YMMV.

Some people say that they can watch a single move by a program and judge how
strong it is.  I'm not one of those people.




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