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Subject: Re: Genius3(!)-vs-MChessPro7 result; surprise?!

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 03:44:46 01/19/99

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On January 19, 1999 at 06:18:15, Harald Faber wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>So now it is done, 40 games were played with the following result:
>
>Genius3-MCP7: 9.0-11.0
>MCP7-Genius3: 7.0-13.0
>
>Sum: Genius3(!!) won 22-18.
>
>Conditions were:
>
>Genius3:      AMD-K6-200, 32MB hash, tournament book (!)
>MChessPro7.1: Intel166MMX, 40MB hash
>(Genius3 had 50% speed advantage)
>
>Time control was game in 180min/player so maximum playing time per game was 6h
>which should be very very close to tournament games with 40/2h+rest/1h.
>
>Games will follow soon.
>
>I found it amazing that Genius3 won and wonder how he'd perform against other
>much newer programs like Hiarcs6, Junior5 etc.
>
>Who would have expected this result?

This is not really a surprise. Genius3 was rated about 2410 on P90 by SSDF. Add
another 90 to scale to P200/MMX and you see that G3 and MCP7 are very close, and
that's what your match seems to indicate.

Uli

>
>Next match will be Genius3-MCP8 to compare MCP8 a bit with MCP7.



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