Author: Bryan Hofmann
Date: 15:10:36 03/26/04
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On March 26, 2004 at 12:30:40, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On March 26, 2004 at 07:26:54, Bryan Hofmann wrote: > >>On March 25, 2004 at 16:02:43, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>On March 25, 2004 at 12:28:08, Bryan Hofmann wrote: >>> >>>>On March 25, 2004 at 10:39:36, Jorge Pichard wrote: >>>> >>>>>I started a match of 10 games at G/90 between Gothmog 0.4.7 vs Fritz 6 and Fritz >>>>>6 is losing 4.5 to 1.5 so far; and even if Fritz 6 win the remaining games >>>>>which I doubt, Gothmog is having either too much luck or Fritz 6 is NOT as >>>>>strong as I thought. >>>>> >>>>>Jorge >>>> >>>>You might want to take a look at this program; >>>> >>>>http://www.stevemaughan.com/whoisbetter.htm >>> >>> >>>>Dude you're Drunk! Fritz6 would slaughter these engines hands down!. >>> >>>I only wanted to prove to Larry that it was not as easy as he thought; all these >>>programs Ruffian 1.0.1, Delfi 4.4, El Chinito 3.25, Thinker 4.5e, and Gothmog >>>are almost a la par with Fritz 6 and some of these programs are even stronger. >>> >>> >>>Yes but I thought that if Mighty Fritz 6 is significantly stronger than any of >>>the programs that I mentioned early the score after 8 games would have been the >>>other way around. Instead of Gothmog winning 5.5 to 2.5 it should have been >>>Fritz 6 winning by the same margin. >>> >>> >>>Jorge >> >>The reason I pointed you to this program is that it shows you in 10 games you >>are really proving nothing. > > > >It could be , but that is not the way I see it. If I am rated 2000 and I play an >opponent which is weaker than I am by 100 points. After ten games, I should be >able to make a statement unless I am playing him completely drunk, the weaker >player should not be able to beat me 75% of the times out of 10 games. Now with >programs it could happen that one program will win 5 games in a row and then the >other will take turn if they are of equal strength or close enough within 50 >rating points. But I do believe that 10 games give us an indication of how close >a program is to another program by looking at the percentage. > >PS: It doesn't proof that the program that won by 6.5 to 3.5 in the first 10 >games is stronger than the program that lost the small match, but at least it >gives us a clue that the program that won is very close or within 50 rating >points from the loser (Fritz 6) > > >Jorge You can belive what ever you like. The fact is you are proving your self wrong when you take a look at the stats for your 30 min games with Fritz and Gothmog. It is a simple fact that you can not say with any certainty one program is stronger/better then the other with 10 matches.
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