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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 6666 and Tiger 11.8.2 Louguet results

Author: Paul Petersson

Date: 17:22:07 08/18/99

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On August 18, 1999 at 03:10:26, Shep wrote:

>On August 17, 1999 at 17:16:39, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:
>
>>On August 17, 1999 at 07:36:53, Baldomero Garcia, Jr. wrote:
>>
>>>Shep, keep up the good work.  I enjoy watching these louget results.
>>>I think there is a good correlation between louget test results and SSDF
>>>computer ratings.
>>>Baldo.
>>
>>I think there is a good inverse correlation between the Louget test results and
>>SSDF ratings, but I do not have them here to verify this.
>>Chuy.
>
>I think there is next to no correlation at all.
>
>For example, Junior has a good SSDF result and plays excellent chess, yet scores
>below average on LCT 2 (the same for Fritz), whereas Hiarcs scores excellently
>in both fields.
>(The former also goes for Chessmaster 5555 and the latter for Chess Tiger - if
>they were rated by SSDF, that is.)
>

An older DOS-version of Chess Tiger will be on the next SSDF-list (middle of
next month).

Paul


>I used to consider LCT 2 the Holy Grail of strength assessment when I got
>started in computer chess, but now it is only interesting to see _how many_
>positions are solved and how the really tough ones are handled.
>The actual score does not matter much anymore (but yes, I keep posting it anyway
>:-).
>
>---
>Shep



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