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Subject: Re: Will there be 22 programs competing for 3rd place?

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 02:35:27 07/05/05

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On July 05, 2005 at 03:36:12, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On July 04, 2005 at 21:18:43, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>Another question is Programs that used to be good at standard chess are not
>>automatically the best at Chess960 or FRC. Here is a good example Pharaon 3.3is
>>probably 50 rating points higher at standard chess than Gothmog or Glaurung:
>
>Almost 100 points stronger than Gothmog, probably.  I haven't seen any data
>which indicates that it is 50 points stronger than Glaurung, though.  We don't
>yet
>know how Glaurung 0.2.4 compares to Pharaon 3.3, but I suspect they are very
>close in playing strength.
>
>Tord

If you need over 1000 games to prove anything, than any program withing a close
rating of less than 100 points can cause a major dissapointment to another in a
tourney where they only meet a maximun of two games, like the coming tourney of
the Computer Chess Chess9860 Championship.


Jorge



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