Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 21:13:09 12/30/99
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On December 30, 1999 at 22:51:14, John Warfield wrote:
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> My question is simple curiosity, Is it really possible for this so-called
>hidden Test of Dr enriques to accurately predict how a program will perform on
>the ssdf. I find this difficult to believe, there seems to be alot of viarables
>to deal with, how would a simple test set, perdict precisely how fritz6 or tiger
>will score. I am open to be educated here. If this test really exist I would
>love to get my hands on it, So Dr Enrique if you read this please send me the
>test, or let me know when it will be availble . Thanks
It is necessary that it is NEVER available.
I don't have it. I would like to, of course, but I prefer that the test stays
secret, which ensures that it will not be cooked by anybody.
I am surprised that this test works, but I can confirm that it works very well.
Enrique has been able to predict Tiger's ranking and rating (and other program's
as well) rather accurately, several days before the list was published. I even
thought that Enrique had access to the SSDF list before everybody else, but it
was not the case.
I don't understand how it can work, but I know that it works. After all this is
not very new. Several years ago the LCT-II test, which has less positions than
Enrique's, was also able to predict the SSDF rankings with a very good accuracy.
This test has been published initially by the french revue "La Puce
Echiquéenne", and month after month for a period of more than two years the
french readers have been able to see that the LCT test was predicting the SSDF
ratings very well.
BTW I'm wondering if the LCT-II test is still accurate or not. I suppose it is
not? Somebody has data? I think Shep has run the test with the new programs, but
I have not checked if the ratings were close to the SSDF ratings.
Christophe
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