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Subject: Re: Any chance of gandalf 6 being in the top 5 on ssdf? NT.

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 02:29:14 11/21/04

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On November 21, 2004 at 03:57:39, Peter Skinner wrote:

>Well I think Gandalf 6 will be about 50 elo stronger than 4.32h (current best
>version of Gandalf)
>
>Based on the the current SSDF list:
>
>27 Gandalf 4.32h 256MB Athlon 1200 MHz 	2660 31	-31 514	53% 2637
>
>2660
>+ 50
>----
>2710
>
>That would put it 18th on the current list with programs currently being tested,
>and more to come.
>
>Frankly until I see some good results for it, I am not shelling out a single
>penny for it. The dupe of 5.0 still lingers in my head... fool me once shame on
>you.. fool me twice shame on me.
>
>Peter

I expect more than it from gandalf

http://www.lokasoft.nl/gandalf6

Results in the games section:

10-10 against deep fritz8 nunn match
13-7+20-16 against Ruffian2.1
17-15+19-19 against Junior8
18-14+17.5-16.5 against Fritz8
8-12+15.5-16.5 against shredder8
19.5-12.5 against gandalf4.32h
14.5-5.5 against GambitTiger2
9-11+14.5-9.5 against tiger15
11.5-8.5+23.5-14.5 against hiarcs9
11.5-8.5 against gambittiger2004
11.5-8.5 against chesstiger2004


The only program with positive score against it is shredder  and you have
hundreds of games.

I think that 100 elo improvement is careful estimate and I will not be surprised
if it is more than 100 elo improvement.

Uri



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