Author: Uri Blass
Date: 18:32:07 08/18/05
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On August 18, 2005 at 21:09:09, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >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 It is not important. He does not test what he means to test(using a simgle position of shuffle chess is not a serious way to compare between engines so we even do not get a comparison between spike and shredder classic. Uri
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