Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:00:58 03/29/04
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On March 29, 2004 at 03:38:54, Tord Romstad wrote: >On March 28, 2004 at 16:04:14, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>The Blitz G/30 was over yesterday, and after 30 games Fritz 6 won by 20 to 10. >> >>I decided to continue the Match at G/90 and after 30 games Gothmog won by 15.5 >>to 14.5. > >Hi Jorge, > >I am very grateful for the amount of work and CPU time you spend on testing my >engine, and I am very interested in your games and results. But the limited >number of games played does not allow you to make conclusions like the one in >the subject line. The only thing you can conclude from your results is that >in short matches, neither of the two engines are entirely without a chance >of winning. > >>I still think that Gothmog at longer time control play a la par with >>Fritz 6, since 1 game doesn't really make too much of a difference. > >I assure you, they are not even close. There is plenty of statistics to be >found on the net to prove that there is a huge gap in playing strength. As >an example, consider, Heinz van Kempen's rating list: > >http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/ratings/ratingsnunn2.htm > >As you can see, Gothmog is rated 201 points behind Ruffian 1.0.5, which >according to the SSDF list is about as strong as Fritz 6. Of course >Heinz' list is based on blitz games, and it is possible that Gothmog is >somewhat stronger at slow time controls (I expected the opposite, though). >But the idea that the difference in strength between short and fast >time controls could be as big as 200 points is absurd. > >Tord It is also possible that rating in the nunn position is different than rating in games and gothmog is relatively worse in the nunn positions. Uri
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