Author: Albert Silver
Date: 16:23:26 12/12/05
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On December 12, 2005 at 19:21:04, Chessfun wrote:
>On December 12, 2005 at 19:09:32, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On December 12, 2005 at 18:29:26, Chessfun wrote:
>>
>>>CEGT Blitz Rating List updated:
>>>
>>>BLITZ:
>>>http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/
>>>
>>>8 New engines added:
>>>
>>>Rybka 1.0 Beta 64-bit
>>>Chess Tiger 2004 Normal
>>
>>It seems that chess tiger 2004 normal played 120 games out of 520 games against
>>ktulu7.1
>>
>>I think that when one engine play so many games against single opponent the
>>rating may be misleading because it is possible that one program has good result
>>against specific opponent.
>>
>>I suggest that you reduce the number of all games between 2 opponents to 30
>>games for rating calculation and it means that tiger2004 got 14.75 out of 30
>>against ktulu7.1 and not 59 out of 120 against it because you should not let one
>>player to decide about the rating list because by this idea if you play 1000
>>games between Fritz9 and TogaII1.0 and Fritz9 scores less than 45% you can tell
>>fritz9 to go down in the list and togaII1.0 to fight for the first place.
>>
>>Of course if there is data about more games I do not say not to use it but you
>>should use it only to get better estimate for the result in 30 games.
>>
>>
>>Tiger also played only against 6 opponents so I think that for calculation you
>>should assume that it played 180 games by reducing the number of games of it
>>against every opponent to 30 and 180<300.
>>
>>Uri
>
>
>I don't agree. Testing of Chess Tiger 2004 Normal is limted in that only a
>couple of CEGT testers have it. It was agreed to run 80 games per engine match
>however there was a mistake regarding Ktulu 7.1.
>
>Testing of Chess Tiger 2004 Normal is also limited in that it only runs in the
>Chess Partner interface and therefore the variety of engines to play against
>isn't so great.
>
>Further the method of testing within Chess Partner don't allow easy use of match
>play gauntlets as Chessbase GUI's do.
>
>Last assuming it will end up playing some 1500 games ultimately it's rating may
>get a bit skewed at the beginning.
>
>Sarah.
What are the openings settings? Do they use a specific set of opening positions
à la Nunn, or do they use their own books? If so, what books do the bookless
engines use?
Albert
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