Author: Chessfun
Date: 16:27:47 12/12/05
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On December 12, 2005 at 19:23:26, Albert Silver wrote: >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 All use generic books in the case of Chess Tiger 2004 Normal I believe they were tested using the Harry Schnapp testsuite. Sarah.
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