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Subject: Re: Tournament update

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 08:15:02 01/05/99

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On January 05, 1999 at 08:56:08, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>On January 05, 1999 at 01:39:51, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>Why is MCP8 playing much worse in SSDF? Is it playing worse against old
>>programs or is 90 games simple too few?
>
>I don't know what is the explanation, but the performance of Mchess 8 in my
>tournament reflects quite well what I think of it in terms of strength. The
>difference between my tournament and the SSDF list may be due of course to the
>relatively small number of games I play, but also to the fact that I play all
>programs on identical platforms and with the maximum RAM they can allocate for
>hashtables. I just looked at the games posted by the SSDF with both opponents
>playing on P200MMX machines. These 376 games would give the following relative
>ratings:
>
>		#Games	Elo
>Hiarcs 6          84    141
>Fritz 5          336    106
>MCP 7.1           90     59
>Genius 5.0        92     19
>Shredder 2.0      80    -12
>Rebel 9           30    -38
>Comet-A.90        40   -281
>
>As you can see, this has little to do with the SSDF list. I don't mean to say
>that this proves anything at all. There are few games played by R9 and Comet,
>many of the games played by the SSDF on equal P200MMX are not posted, etc.
>Still, the difference is quite striking.
>
>>I think 40/40 in P400 is quite
>>equal to 40/2h in 200MMX and results should be close to SSDF.
>
>40/40 on PII-400s is very close to 40/120 on P200MMX.
>
>Enrique

Can anyone improvise a rating list from the SSDF P200MMX vs. P200MMX matches ?

Amir




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