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Subject: Re: CEGT ratings "pur"

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 06:05:18 12/27/05

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On December 27, 2005 at 08:48:55, Heinz van Kempen wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>as I saw that Hiarcs 10 played a lot of games exactly against "Nemesis"
>opponents like Rybka I calculated a more purist rating list. Here I took out all
>deep versions, all version based on Fruit and only kept the best version with
>enough games in.
>
>http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/ratingpur.html
>
>Indeed Hiarcs 10 wins not less than 15 rating points by doing so. The Rybka
>64-bit version also gains another 9 points, whereas most other ratings are not
>affected too much.

I'd like to see the 32-bit version of Rybka back. Most people will want to see
the version they are using, and I think that more than 95% will be using the
32-bit version. I tend to view the deep versions as merely running the same
program over various computers, whereas Rybka 64-bit requires a different OS.
I'd honestly like to see both.

                                         Albert

If the other CEGT testers agree I will keep this rating table
>in the future additionally, because I think it is fairer, especially when many
>settings for one engine are tested. There are of course other improvements
>possible like limiting matches to 50 games with adequate results.
>
>Matches for Hiarcs 10 hypermodern/normal are in progress. We will try to give
>the same amount of games against opponents we are having with default. First
>results comparing this two settings will be given in a few days.
>
>Best Regards
>Heinz



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