Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 14:54:14 06/24/05
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On June 24, 2005 at 11:02:25, Heinz van Kempen wrote: >Hi all , > >as interest in Fruit 2.1 is very high (no surpirse as it is gorgeously strong) >CEGT testers are updating the rating list more often than usually. > >You can´t find it on our websites, but here when scolling to the bottom: > >http://wbforum.volker-pittlik.name/viewtopic.php?t=2906 > >This one is a provisional as a lot more games will come tomorrow for example >from Michael und Uschi and we will give a new one on our websites tomorrow >evening. Compared to the last rating list given by Christian Fruit lost two >points while Fritz won two, due to a very good performance in CEGT WCC and due >to the individual results against Fruit. According to the error bars we have now >with 960 games for Fruit it can still go to rank 2 with some hundred games more. >In case of very bad performance it could also drop to rank 4 or 5. > >By giving more matches against the very top we raised the average opposition ELO >for Fruit now to the opponent level Junior has. The assumption that this would >increase ELO so far did not prove to be true, what Michael and I anyway already >doubted from all the tournaments we ran in the past years. It can happen for >some engines that they perform better against the top, it can as well be that >rating increases when playing against the lower end of the list. We had all this >cases. For Fruit 2.0 Michael in his Active Chess ratinglist had an improvement >as soon as the former version played against weaker opposition. > >http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/ > >http://www.miko42.de/ (german) > >http://www.chessfighters.de/cegt/ > >http://uk.geocities.com/bloodhound66@btinternet.com/index.htm > >Best Regards >Heinz Great service Heinz. You were able to come with a reliable rating in a couple of days. My congratulations to you and of course to Fabien for his incredible engine. regards Joachim P.S.: Whether it finishes ahead or behind of Fritz is an interesting question from a sporting point of view but relatively uninteresting for determining the strength of Fruit. It is as strong as Fritz!!!
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