Author: Mike Hood
Date: 13:38:59 12/29/03
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On December 29, 2003 at 16:27:06, Slater Wold wrote: >On December 29, 2003 at 16:18:20, Mike Hood wrote: > >>Take a look at the end-of-year Best-for-Fritz rating list, for engines running >>in the Fritz GUI, at >>http://www.beepworld.de/members39/computerschach2/bff-liste.htm >> >>I have two "doubts" about the list: >> >>1) At the bottom of the list is the Chessbase native engine Turing, with a >>rating of 1572. This seems horribly inflated to me. My own "official" rating, >>based on my league games, is 1430. I played a series of games against Turing and >>won 8-0, no draws. My personal estimate for Turing is between 1000 and 1200. If >>you can't trust the Elo values at the bottom of the list, how can you trust the >>values at the top of the list? Maybe the arbitrary start value of 2600 was too >>high. If a start value of 2400, or even 2200, had been used, a more meaningful >>rating list would have been achieved. >> >>2) In 21st place there is a native Chessbase engine called List 5.12. This is >>neither a commercial engine, nor a free engine, so is it a secret engine that >>somebody has slipped to CSS "under the hand"? Is it the engine that was >>disqualified at the recent computer chess tournament in Graz? Based on the >>replies to my previous question in this forum, nobody knows where it's come >>from, so it doesn't deserve to be included in the rating list. > >List 5.04 is on Chessbase's website. > >And yes, that was the engine that got disqualified. List 5.04 is also in the BfF list, in 37th place. It's obviously a distinct engine to the mystery engine List 5.12.
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