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Subject: Re: Tournaments-Tournaments !

Author: blass uri

Date: 09:55:01 11/20/99

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On November 20, 1999 at 12:32:24, Wayne Lowrance wrote:

>On November 20, 1999 at 02:42:03, blass uri wrote:
>
>>On November 20, 1999 at 00:37:32, Wayne Lowrance wrote:
>>
>>
>><snipped>
>>>At the moment, for me, the only gauge is SSDF. Its results seem to stand up
>>>preety good. SSDF has said for a few years now that Fritz was the strongest
>>>program
>>
>>The ssdf did not say it because they did not test all the programs.
>>The ssdf is saying now that chessmaster6000 has better rating than Fritz on the
>>same hardware and that tiger has clearly better performance than Fritz.
>>
>>
>>Uri
>
>No sir, I have had Fritz now for a number of years, it is in that time frame
>that i was making reference too. If you recall the controversy made over this
>and many many post with complaints.
>
>Have I missed a ssdf post ? where chessmasater6000 is better than fritz on
>current state of the art computers ? slow pentiums, yes. I have chessmaster
>6000, it is a fine program and in fact It is a better program at blitz 10 min
>than Fritzy and Hiarcs, this I have verified with identical hardware.

I know that chessmaster6000 is good at slow time control and not at blitz.
2 hours/40 on p200 is eqvivalent to 50 minutes/40 on fast hardware and it is not
blitz.

>At the moment that honor goes to Hiarcs and Fritz5.32 of the programs i have,
>Hiarcs best, then Fritz. I have Nimzo99, Junior5, Crafty17.1,cm6000 (and all the
>rest of CM's) and many more enginess.
>I do not know where I would rate the rest of these programs behinds Hiarcs and
>Fritz, but they are behind those two and Crafty17.1 for the short time i have
>had it probobly is around 3rd, with a better book than the one I downloaded
>maybe higher yet.

Do you find that crafty17.1 is better than other programs except fritz,hiarcs?

>
>Well I understand that this site is not meant for us users. It is a site for
>chess programmars and technical people involved in the art of chess programming.
>I think it is great, I really do.
>
>Also I understand that tournaments like Patterborn are a chance for the chess
>Authors to compete and demonstrate there program to there peers. I am keenly
>interested in the results and My silent congratulations goes out to all of them
>for there exhasting effort.
>
>However but It is, as I said, not a good measuring stick for us users to
>determine order of chess prowess.
>
>Example: I will wager that had Dr. Hyatt and his best crafty version entered
>patterborn with his quad Xeons that result would have been different, with
>crafty number one.

It is not clear because in one tournament everything can happen.
I do not like the idea that crafty is going to be number 1 because it is going
to be a disaster for programmers who worked hard for their programs and want to
sell their program.

<snipped>
>Do you all realize that (In my judgement) the vast majority of the purchers of
>chess programs do so for the enjoyment of playing the program against other
>programs ?.

I do not think that it is the case.
I believe that most of the purchers of chess progrms do so to analyze their
games.

Uri



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