Author: Jürgen Hartmann
Date: 03:27:18 02/02/00
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> >I suspect that you are reading a lot more into this tournament than is possible. >Junior (by the SSDF) indeed looks very strong. But this tournament was at >fairly short time controls. Hence, the data is not at all commensurate with >SSDF testing [Though I am not sure you implied that]. If you look at the +/- >figures you will see that the winning margin is hardly conclusive. I feel pity for the poor programs winning tournaments. They always get told how meaningless this particular event was. Poor Stefan Meyer-Kahlen who only won three completely negligible World Championship titles is my favourite example. Of course Cadaqués is completely meaningless since everybody who can throw a coin immediately sees that chess game results are completely random. The data is not at all commensurate with SSDF testing! Aha. So it seems quite possible that Junior gets a bad SSDF ranking as soon as the Swedes start testing it. However if against all strong expectations Junior (or an arbitrary other program) gets a good SSDF result, I am sure we'll immediately discover the methodological faults in their work which makes it meaningless and negligible. If I were a chess programmer, I would however prefer to win the completely meaningless tournaments, rather than not.
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