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Subject: Re: In SSDF, who decides what engine plays against what?

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 09:46:04 03/06/04

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On March 06, 2004 at 12:17:14, emerson tan wrote:

>The choice of engine to play against will affect the rating of the engine. Some
>engines perform well against the majority of other engines, but despite that,
>there's a certain engine that will perform well against the dominating engine
>just like what happen to junior 8 against ruffian 1.0
>
>If each engine doesnt have the same opponents, then it would be hard to compare
>their relative strenght.
>
>Also, why isnt junior 8 being played against shredder 7.04, It perform well in a
>match but was aborted due to some other tester already testing it, but when I
>look at the individual matches of Shredder 7.04, I didnt see any match against
>junior 8.
>
>It would be much better also if the top ten in the SSDF can play matches against
>ech other so that we can see who won between no 1 and no 2 etc

Good point, since Ruffian 1.0.1 got higher opponents than Ruffian 1.0.5 and even
if a program gets the same percentage, the rating will be lower if the opponents
have lower ratings.

Jorge



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