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Subject: Re: Congrats to Ruffian!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:50:57 10/27/03

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On October 27, 2003 at 10:42:05, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On October 27, 2003 at 10:40:21, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>I asked question why noomen plays 1.d4 for Sjeng and 1.e4 with Rebel despite
>already proof in round 1 that 1.e4 works better for such engines.
>
>You just posted here to make me ridicoulous. However you aren't you are making
>an old idiot out of yourself by posting it like this.

I didn't post anything to make you look ridiculous.  You did that all by
yourself.  I simply pointed out that there is _no way_ to "guarantee_ a
tournament will be won by a specific program.  You said there was.  I
simply disagreed.  If that makes you look ridiculous, then perhaps you should
look in the mirror to see why that is...

My age seems to be a real sticking point with you.  Age == Experience.
You should learn that.  Or by the time you get older, the above won't be
true...


>
>>On October 27, 2003 at 10:23:32, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On October 27, 2003 at 08:01:43, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>I didn't say anything about ruffian.
>>>
>>>What i did want to discuss is why Tiger has a better book than Sjeng and that
>>>from the same openings book creator.
>>>
>>>Sjeng at a dual K7 would have been a tournament winner for sure with the well
>>>prepared Noomen books with 1.e4 etcetera.
>>
>>You need to stop making such ridiculous statements.  In a tournament, there
>>is no _for sure_ winner, ever.  Not even between two programs, one running on
>>a PIV/3ghz and one running on a pentium pro 200.  There is no "sure thing"
>>in chess.  I've seen such "sure things" fall apart way too many times.
>>
>>"high probability" is not "sure thing".
>>
>>
>>>
>>>It only plays everywhere different openings than Tiger/Rebel.
>>>
>>>Sjeng is a very aggressive engine which is unmatched in mating the opponent
>>>capabilities. Even where some say DIEP and The King are strong in king gambits,
>>>the performance of Sjeng there is without discussions better in such lines.
>>>
>>>Yet it plays positional openings and endgame after endgame, where there is a
>>>cool alternative as we can see from the Tiger + Rebel games.
>>>
>>>I am *sure* that Sjeng would have completely mated diep over the h-file for
>>>example, directly playing either h6, and going for Kg7 soon.
>>>
>>>So why did Jeroen spoil this opportunity to produce a tournament winner?
>>>
>>>>On October 27, 2003 at 07:29:38, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On October 26, 2003 at 14:44:32, Jeroen Noomen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On October 26, 2003 at 14:31:25, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Hi Djordje,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Of course you are right. But I am not complaining :-). I'll leave that to
>>>>>>Vincent. I was in a good mood today anyway, as Tiger did some good work against
>>>>>>Diep. Needless to say Vincent was relatively quiet during that game :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>replace the word 'tiger' by Noomen.
>>>>>
>>>>>Without Noomen book, Tiger would be a bad amateur.
>>>>
>>>>Nonsense.
>>>>
>>>>Ruffian showed that book is not very important if you have a strong engine
>>>>and the only loss of it against xinix was because of some problems of the
>>>>engine.
>>>>
>>>>Tiger could probably score slightly less with Ruffian's book but still better
>>>>than the other amateurs(except isichess).
>>>>
>>>>I believe that it is simply a better program than Baron or Ant or nullmover or
>>>>zzzz or gnuchess.
>>>>
>>>>These programs are most of the amateurs that compete and you cannot be called
>>>>bad amateur when you are better than most of the amateurs.
>>>>
>>>>Uri



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