Author: Dan Honeycutt
Date: 08:20:17 02/21/05
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On February 21, 2005 at 02:32:08, Sune Fischer wrote: >On February 21, 2005 at 00:41:37, Dan Honeycutt wrote: >> >>I understood 1 vs 4 but not necessarily a repeating a losing line where, like >>you say, the difference can be anything you want. More like engine X plays in a >>tournament with book 4 and achieves a rating of 2700 - has chances to win. If >>it enters the same tournament with book 1 it will achieve a rating of ~ 2000 - >>no chance to win. > >Sure, but you don't have to be 700 Elo weaker to have practicly zero chance. > >Even if you are just 100 Elo weaker than the top guys you have extremely slim >chances of winning a long tournament. > I don't disagree. But Vincent's statement was the chances of the engine without book was "zero", not "slim". >From that POV getting the best book possible is of course important, still how >does this prove book 4 is worth 700 Elo? > I've seen no proof that book 4 is worth 700 points - in fact I strongly doubt it. My comment at the start of the thread was that the test by Tord did not disprove the statement. Dan H.
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