Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 22:12:11 08/27/03
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On August 27, 2003 at 17:09:36, George Tsavdaris wrote:
>On August 27, 2003 at 16:05:58, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>
>>The end of the tournament is indeed very exiting. The first time in the
>>tournament The King 3.23 skr with general.ctg takes the lead together
>>with Shredder 7.04 but Junior 8 is only a half point behind and with
>>only four rounds to go all can happen. Who will be the lucky winner
>>after total 280 games, 70 games per engine? One thing is however
>>clear: the book general.ctg is much better for The King 3.23 skr
>>than the remis.ctg.
>
>I bet on Shredder in both tables! Even now i can't believe the bad
>performance of Hiarcs 8 and especially Chess Tiger 15.0. Why this happened?
>It's a mystery. Maybe 70 more games and things would change.
>But one thing is clear: engine strength is a complicated equation that depends
>on: opening books,hardware speed,permanent brain,hash size,luck?,time
>controls,the opponents,endgame tablebases,book learning and even if you
>keep these parameters (except luck) the same, for finding the best we need
>many many games (to eliminate luck). So even if Kasparov won 5-1 DJ8, this
>would not mean he is better, as your 100-game example with Gandalf shows.
>
>What will happen if 2 or 3 engines have equal score in the top? Are you
>intent to play tiebreak? It would be interesting.
We have not yet thought about this. A tiebriek about how many
games?
Kurt
>
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>> Program Score % Av.Op. Elo + -
>>
>> 1 TK 3.23 skr general.ctg : 40.5/ 66 61.4 2490 2571 75 59
>> 2 Shredder 7.04 : 40.5/ 66 61.4 2489 2570 75 59
>> 3 Junior 8.0.0.2 : 40.0/ 66 60.6 2490 2565 75 63
>> 4 Fritz 8.0.0.8 : 37.0/ 66 56.1 2495 2537 80 63
>> 5 Deep Sjeng 1.5 : 29.5/ 66 44.7 2506 2469 64 81
>> 6 Chess Tiger 15.0 : 27.5/ 66 41.7 2508 2450 52 78
>> 7 Ruffian 1.0.5 : 27.0/ 66 40.9 2508 2444 57 77
>> 8 Hiarcs 8 : 22.0/ 66 33.3 2516 2395 60 70
>>
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>> Program Score % Av.Op. Elo + -
>>
>> 1 Shredder 7.04 : 41.0/ 66 62.1 2489 2575 74 61
>> 2 Junior 8.0.0.2 : 40.5/ 66 61.4 2488 2569 75 62
>> 3 Fritz 8.0.0.8 : 39.5/ 66 59.8 2492 2561 76 70
>> 4 Deep Sjeng 1.5 : 32.0/ 66 48.5 2501 2491 62 86
>> 5 TK 3.23 skr remis.ctg : 31.5/ 66 47.7 2502 2486 60 85
>> 6 Ruffian 1.0.5 : 29.5/ 66 44.7 2505 2468 54 81
>> 7 Chess Tiger 15.0 : 27.5/ 66 41.7 2508 2449 52 78
>> 8 Hiarcs 8 : 22.5/ 66 34.1 2515 2401 62 71
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