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Subject: Re: Some Gandalf 6.0 results

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 09:30:07 11/29/04

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On November 29, 2004 at 12:16:33, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>On November 29, 2004 at 09:57:37, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>[...]
>>So far in all the games that I have played, I must say that the advertising for
>>Gandalf being 100 elo stronger than 5.0 is false. I also do not expect it to
>>crack the top 5 in the SSDF list. Personally this was a waste of $50 CDN.
>>Peter
>
>
>      Hi Peter
>      Is it not too early to make firm conclusions? In my
>      tests Gandalf 6.0 has also not shown the expected
>      scores but still too less games played, see at
>      http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?397988
>      Kurt

While it might be to early, I think there is enough information to see that the
trend is probably going to continue and the advertising will prove to be false.

Personally I am not going to waste countless hours of my time only to be proven
right. I have seen the games that I have played, and for the life of me I can
not see where the implied 100 elo is coming from.

Peter



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