Author: Zheng Zhixian
Date: 09:51:45 08/20/05
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On August 20, 2005 at 11:52:24, Peter Skinner wrote: >On August 20, 2005 at 11:42:45, George Speight wrote: > >>I applaud the programmers of Zappa and Fruit. They have extremely strong >>programs and should be proud. But lets face facts. Run a best of 50 match >>between Shredder and either of the above. Its easy to talk about what the result >>would be. But i can guarantee u one thing. If Las Vegas gave betting odds on it >>and u wanted to get in line to bet YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY against Shredder, you >>wouldnt have a long wait. When push came to shove and the talk was over, it >>would be a real short line. Regards, George > >I wouldn't say that Shredder is dead. It is just having a bad tournament. Or the current version playing is weaker than the normal one. We don't know. >Anything can happen in a one game situation. The level of play in this year's >tournament is quite high. If you import the pgn into a new Chessbase book the >performance ratio is incredible. 2650+... > >Using elostat and starting with a base rating of 2500... > >Shredder is _still_ performing about the start elo values. This only means that means based on performance in the tourney it is not weaker than the average program in the tourney (ignoring the error bars). But given that shredder is supposed to be the best in the world and considering the contestants (the majority are not considered to be the peers of Shredder), this result is still considered quite a big underpeformance. >Call it unlucky.. call it a bad tournament.. just dont count it out yet. >Shredder will still rip 99% of the programs apart in a 50 game match. 99% of which programs?
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