Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 10:28:40 08/17/05
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On August 17, 2005 at 09:36:20, Volker Böhm wrote: >Hi Jorge, > >in my opignon there is no "proper way" to make a tournament. We do know that you >need a large amount of games, to judge the playing strenght of an engine. Even >with 1000 games there is an Error of about +/- 20 Elo in the raiting. In a >tournament of 7, 9 or 11 games it is never sure that the best engine will win >the tournament if there are enough engines with acceptable strength compared to >the best engine. > >There are good rating lists with 1000 or more games per engines where you can >easily find out which engine is currently the strongest. In any list that I know >Shredder has the first position. If this is enough to win any tournament then >why make one? > > >Greetings Volker This small match of 40 games is only suppose to give us an idea of the average rating of Spike 1.0, since we all know what is the Rating of Shredder in normal Chess. The difference in rating between normal chess and Chess960 should not be -30 to +30 even if Shredder FRC has a problem with the early Queen activation, which sometimes causes shredder FRC to lose a game or two. Jorge.
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