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Subject: Re: the tortoise and the hare: yace versus rybka in endgame test

Author: Joseph Ciarrochi

Date: 04:14:42 01/01/06

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>
>It is known that part of the positions are unbalanced so I do not understand why
>do you even try to do comprison between rating and results.
>
>Note also that even in case that the positions are balanced you can expect
>smaller difference relative to difference in real games because in most cases
>the weaker engine does not get equal endgames in real games.
>
>Uri

Yes, I realize this. I suppose rather than saying "its amazing" I should say " I
was amazed, or impressed by yace." I thought it was cool that a much older
engine could still be competitive.

The only way to tell what constitutes a "big" or "small" difference would be to
run a massive endgame tournament. Then we could get some stats on whether, say,
a +7 score out of 40 is statistically unusual, etc.








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