Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 07:04:21 01/14/99
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On January 14, 1999 at 09:17:12, Randy Schmidt wrote: > > >Enrique, > >I understand your feelings that this tourney has dragged on and >on for too long, but I would ask you to reconsider my request! >It is very valuable to know if updated versions are better than >previous ones. Instead of some of the SSDF "lesser" programs >that you are running, ??? Which ones? They are all supposed to be the cream of the commercial crop, except Crafty, the cream of the freewares... Pure cream. :) >I would love to see what HA6, and Rebel9 >would do in this tourney. (An argument could be made for CG5 >as well). Well... My idea when I included F5 was to have some sort of reference. There is also an indirect way to measure: average the SSDF ratings for F5 and J5 and see how the 11 programs end up on the SSDF scale: Elo SSDF Scale P200MMX H7 59 2592 J5 38 2571 M8 38 2571 Ti 37 2570 F532 30 2563 R10 -2 2531 F5 -2 2531 N99a -12 2521 G6 -62 2471 C161 -114 2419 S3 -10 2523 Entering H6 and R9 would mean 230 more games, at least 23 more days, and I need my time badly for a zillion things, including going to the movies in Barcelona... Right now I had to drop 2 consecutive games because Tiger stopped sending the moves to Shredder. After the tournament I'll have to check some positions because someone else's program "doesn't play that move", an adjudication seems dubious, etc. Come on! >I know....you could say that where does it end? I do say it, yes. The worst case is Crafty. I want badly to enter a proper working Crafty. And then Wchess. Plus R9 and H6, it would be 500 more games, or 2 more months. I enjoyed this tournament, but I'm getting burned by now. I send the games and crosstables to Steve with the message "6 days left...", etc. >Should I run >all 100 versions of crafty :) !! But the above 2 programs would >do the chess computer community a great service by suggesting >whether chess engine knowledge is tapped out now. You have a very >powerful machine, and it would be good to see the "experiment" >run under the same conditions. I hope you will reconsider. > >Maybe other readers would agree with me? Hope not. :( Enrique
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