Author: martin fierz
Date: 03:37:26 03/29/04
Go up one level in this thread
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 hi tord, i just finished a big nunn2 blitz 1' + 5''/move with 5 arena partner engines (ruffian 105, anmon 530, SOS4Arena, Dragon45, Nejmet 3.07) + gothmog 0.4.7 + muse 0894 - i'm a bit reluctant to post the result, but i can just leave out the last place ;-) gothmog finished 6th, but honourably 6th with a rather small gap to place 3. ruffian won convincingly, anmon came clear second and my thing clear last of course. i'll post the full results tonight when i get back home together with an elostat of the tournament. my feeling is that the difference between gothmog and ruffian should be smaller than 200 points based on my tournament, but i'll have to run elostat to be sure. cheers martin anyway,
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.