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Subject: Re: Nimzo-7.32 SSDF leader !

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 09:09:10 12/28/99

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On December 28, 1999 at 08:15:56, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

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>>Some criticism to our continuous interpretations of the SSDF list:
>
>Accounting for the statistical uncertainities, we must conclude that the SSDF
>list is not able to determine uniquely a leader.
>
>The below list is for instance very well consistent with the statement that
>Nimzo-7.32 is the strongest program.
>
>
>      THE SSDF RATING LIST 1999-11-26   69727 games played by  202 computers
>                                           Rating   +     -  Games   Won  Oppo
>                                           ------  ---   --- -----   ---  ----
>   1 Chess Tiger 12.0 DOS 128MB K6-2 450 MHz 2696   44   -40   317   72%  2533
>   2 Fritz 5.32  128MB K6-2 450 MHz          2671   45   -41   297   72%  2506
>   3 Nimzo 7.32  128MB K6-2 450 MHz          2663   37   -35   409   69%  2526
>
>
>Please do not over-interprete these numbers. A ELO difference of 20 is
>essentially nothing.
>
>Regards, Uli

Absolutely true!
But then don't forget that this goes for every list in this universe,
including all human rating lists as well.
Looking at the current human world ranking list gives at least me some
thoughts...

//Peter




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