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Subject: Re: i disagree

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 09:25:18 01/21/04

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On January 21, 2004 at 06:28:27, Thao Tak-Sen wrote:

>On January 21, 2004 at 06:19:50, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On January 21, 2004 at 01:08:32, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>Thrust me on this one! For curiosity I played 50 games between them:
>>>
>>>Ruffian 2.0.0 - Ruffian Leiden (active chess) 26,5 - 23,5
>>>
>>>Evaluation, depth and node speed are almost identical - I am 99% that Leiden is
>>>not any stronger.
>>>
>>>Jouni
>>
>>
>>     Hi Jouni
>>     On the basis of only 50 games (60/5') between two somewhat
>>     identical engines you can't make such a statement. And a
>>     much better way to find out is to let both versions play
>>     the same (great) amout of games vs other engines at
>>     different time controls
>>     Kurt
>
>
>well you say that
>there should not be more than 1 game in a tournament
>Engine can't play 50-100 and to about 200 games in OFFICIAL tournament
>eg:in Leiden,Xinx defeated Ruffian and in Graz,Ruy Lopez defeated Junior
>defeat is the "DEFEAT"
>clearly read what DEFEAT stands?

It means one engine lost one game to another. In terms of determining strength
DEFEAT in a few games stands for nothing at all.

                                        Albert



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