Author: Tony Hedlund
Date: 09:35:13 11/15/99
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On November 14, 1999 at 15:00:58, Christophe Theron wrote: >On November 14, 1999 at 14:50:23, Thorsten Czub wrote: > >>Could you please stop these senseless kind of games >>and start some more useful games >>in a setting where Shredder e.g. has a faster machine, >>or if you don't have a faster machine, why not >>use a shredder version that is newer ? >>You test shredder2, in the moment shredder 4 is the state- >>of the art product. >> >>I don't see much sense in letting tiger play against a shredder >>version from a few years. >> >>i mean, it is interesting if you live a few years in the past >>(do you live a few years in the past in sweden ?) >>but all other people in the world live in year 1999... almost all. > > >How is it possible to give a rating to Chess Tiger if you let it play against >unrated programs? > >Playing against rated programs, current or past, is absolutely necessary. > >The SSDF could play 1000 games against Shredder 4, and this would tell us >nothing about Tiger's rating, as Shredder 4 as no rating yet! > >The question is not who is going to win the match. The question is "what is the >winning percentage exactly". > >It seems that the elo difference between the two programs is not more than 400 >points, so the match will give useful information. > > > Christophe Thank you Christophe for your insightfull answer! Tony
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