Author: José Carlos
Date: 10:28:16 09/20/99
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On September 20, 1999 at 13:11:00, James T. Walker wrote: >On September 20, 1999 at 09:59:23, José Carlos wrote: > >> I like to make games between engines to compute my rating list. Last night, I >>set a match (30'/game) between Tristram 4.018 and Inmichess 2.05. I know there >>are later versions, at least for Inmichess, but I want to know the relative >>strength of all versions. >> When I've looked at the results, it's been a great suprise. 18-0 for >>Tristram!!!! >> I couldn't beleive it, so I started to see the games and... Inmichess lost all >>games on time, in won or at least favourable positions. >> This should be a bug in Inmichess, probably solved in later versions, but my >>question is: should I compute the 18-0 for the rating? >> Inmichess has really lost the games, but it's not weaker than Tristram at all. >> What would you do? Compute or ignore them? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> José C. > >Hello Jose, >I think in this case all you have proven is that something is broken. If it's >the program then forget it and get a fixed version. If it's winboard then >forget it anyway. Results like this have no meaning except that something is >probably wrong. The important thing to do is find out what. >Jim Walker I'll test Inmi 2.05 more times and, if it lose on time, I'll remove it from my list. José C.
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