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Subject: Re: American Chess Programs vs European Chess Programs

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 11:40:00 01/11/04

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On January 11, 2004 at 10:01:11, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On January 10, 2004 at 23:36:19, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>
>>Don't forget Zappa.  Its probably about 50 elo weaker than Arasan.
>
>This seems very unlikely to me -- I think that Zappa must be much better than
>Arasan.
>A couple of days ago, you wrote that Zappa was a bit stronger than Gothmog.  I
>played
>a blitz match between Gothmog 0.4.5 (which was released about an hour ago) and
>Arasan
>7.2 (not the most recent version, but still) last night, and Gothmog won by
>68.5-31.5.
>
>Gothmog 0.4.5 is clearly stronger than 0.4.3 (which, I suppose, is the one you
>have), but
>it is not hundreds of points stronger.  My guess is that Zappa is at least 150
>points stronger
>than the latest version of Arasan.
>
>Tord
>

Actually I was running against 0.4.1.

That was a special version of Zappa, though, which performed poorly overall - it
just happened to do very well against Gothmog.  Zappa is still at least 100 elo
weaker than Crafty.

anthony



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