Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 18:09:09 08/18/05
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On August 17, 2005 at 13:28:40, Jorge Pichard wrote: >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. What is the rating of Shredder Classsic 1.3? You do know that this isn't the same engine as Shredder 9 (UCI). I think it was mention here sometime ago that the Classic engine was about 150 elo weaker than Shredder 9, but I don't know anybody who have tested it in matches against different engines. Odd Gunnar
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