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Subject: Re: The advantage is too obvious with book and without Book (Experiment

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 02:56:25 07/16/04

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On July 16, 2004 at 05:01:59, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On July 16, 2004 at 04:41:59, Joachim Rang wrote:
>
>>On July 16, 2004 at 03:49:14, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>The advantage is too obvious with book and without Book, Jonny 2.64 doen't have
>>>a chance against an opponent of equal strength like Aristarch 4.50. Therefore, I
>>>simply stopped this unfair match. If anybody like to compare engines they would
>>>have to match them by providing both programs with equal weapons :-)
>>
>>Jonny doesn't have a chance with book either. Your first match was simply an
>>exception. Aristarch is significantly stronger than Jonny with or without book.
>>I expect the difference with and without book to be not so big but certainly
>>visible.
>>
>>regards Joachim
>
>
>Sorry in chess there is not exception or luck, specially in a match of 20 games,
>if I play an opponent that is rated close to me around 1950 and he beats me by
>the same margin that Jonny beat Aristarch 4.50 then I simply don't have any
>excuses. Remember programs are not like humans they don't have good day or bad
>day, neither personal problems like we do. I am sorry to say that if you had a
>bad match with Jonny you simply had it configured wrong.
>

or it was a random error like your match ;-)

regards Joachim
>Jorge





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