Author: George Tsavdaris
Date: 12:11:05 11/06/04
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My starting purpose was to find the relation between the strength of computer Chess engines in comparison with human "good players" (GM's-IM's), and time. I wondered what the relation would be and what the diagram of it would be. So i could have a guess of, where the strength of engines tends to go at the future, if the obvious increasement it stays the same or is decreasing. Since i don't have the appropriate data for doing such a thing, as it don't even exist(very small number of "serious" games between computers and GM's), i have done something that looks similar but it's way different and of a much less value. I've gathered the ratings of the engines that was at first places on the SSDF for all these years and made a graph. Unfortunately we can't really conclude something important but anyway. The only thing perhaps we see from the graph is that the engine strength when they play between them, taking into consideration and the hardware evolution, is steadily increases and in fact we don't see any decrease into this inceasement, so we can expect further improvement. Unfortunately the graph has not the appropriate form, to show us if there is a limit at engine's strength. Since at 27/10/2000 SSDF have removed 100 points from their list i have done the same to the lists before 27/10/2000 in order to have a correct graph. Here is the data and the graph: Date Rating Program -------------------------------------- 17/1/1996 2347 M.Chess Pro 5 4/2/1996 2342 M.Chess Pro 5 2/3/1996 2340 M.Chess Pro 5 21/4/1996 2330 M.Chess Pro 5 28/5/1996 2330 M.Chess Pro 5 3/8/1996 2321 M.Chess Pro 5 11/9/1996 2320 Genius 3 23/10/1996 2382 Rebel 8 1/12/1996 2373 Rebel 8 8/2/1997 2362 Rebel 8 9/3/1997 2362 Rebel 8 24/5/1997 2487 Hiarcs 6 2/8/1997 2455 Hiarcs 6 4/9/1997 2458 Hiarcs 6 24/10/1997 2439 Hiarcs 6 30/11/1997 2444 Hiarcs 6 31/1/1998 2433 Rebel 9 22/2/1998 2489 Fritz 5 9/6/1998 2473 Fritz 5 10/8/1998 2474 Fritz 5 14/9/1998 2474 Fritz 5 7/11/1998 2470 Fritz 5 24/12/1998 2466 Fritz 5 28/1/1999 2476 Hiarcs 7 28/3/1999 2476 Chessmaster 6000 1/6/1999 2477 Fritz 5.32 26/9/1999 2581 Fritz 5.32 26/11/1999 2596 Chess Tiger 12.0 30/1/2000 2606 Junior 6 27/10/2000 2630 Fritz 6 28/12/2000 2629 Fritz 6 5/3/2001 2650 Deep Fritz 11/6/2001 2653 Deep Fritz 2/10/2001 2726 Deep Fritz 27/12/2001 2715 Chess Tiger 14 15/2/2002 2715 Shredder 6 27/3/2002 2748 Fritz 7 22/5/2002 2730 Fritz 7 30/7/2002 2741 Fritz 7 28/10/2002 2763 Deep Fritz 7 5/12/2002 2755 Deep Fritz 7 16/1/2003 2754 Deep Fritz 7 13/2/2003 2768 Shredder 7 26/5/2003 2768 Shredder 7 6/7/2003 2810 Shredder 7.04 UCI 17/10/2003 2812 Shredder 7.04 UCI 25/2/2004 2808 Shredder 7.04 UCI 7/5/2004 2812 Shredder 8 And the graph is at http://www.angelfire.com/ultra/georgecm9000/SSDF.jpg If you click at the link it will not work, but if you copy and paste it at the address bar it will! Damn computers.....
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