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Subject: Re: Diep and Falcon #2 and 3

Author: Chessfun

Date: 22:07:33 04/30/04

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On May 01, 2004 at 00:58:02, Uri Blass wrote:

>On April 30, 2004 at 22:44:40, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>
>>Diep is now in the #3 programs
>>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?362447
>>
>>And Falcon is a Grandmaster strength program about 2700 ELO.
>>
>>And assuming "Shredder 8 is the only engine that consistently scores above 50%
>>against Falcon in my tests"
>>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?362348 we can therefore assume
>>it's #2
>>
>>That leaves Shredder 8 at #1.
>>
>>Lucky both the #2 and #3 program are neither for sale or available else some may
>>even report they are #1 ;-)
>>
>>I would suggest to both programmers that they get a good team of beta testers
>>and start posting game scores and results that would be deemed realistic.
>>
>>Sarah.
>
>At least in the case of Falcon the programmer did not claim that it is one of
>the top 3 engines.

No never claimed that ;-) simply claimed "Shredder 8 is the only engine that
consistently scores above 50% against Falcon in my tests"

>He used the Fritz8's book for Falcon in his tests and he even did not claim that
>in these conditions Falcon is better than Fritz or Junior.

Re-read the above.

>Shredder 8 is the only engine that consistently scores above 50% does not mean
>that Deep Fritz8 or Junior8 cannot do it but only that they did not do it in all
>of his tests.

I think thats a matter of interpretation and I don't read that into it.

Sarah.



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