Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:27:09 07/17/00
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On July 17, 2000 at 19:02:29, Peter Kappler wrote: [snip] >>To squeeze 2000 ELO from such a tiny package is nothing short of a miracle. >>There are programs with ten times as much code that get the stuffings pounded >>out of them. > >Is it really that strong? My experience with it is limited, but my impressions >were that it was not close to that strength, at least at slow chess. Blitz >might be a different story. > >(No offense intended to Tom, since the primary design goal was simplicity.) Here is the calculated ELO at Standard time control (G/60 or slower for this list) for the 1-Crown category: Program Elo + - Games Score Av.Op. Draws -------------- ---- -- -- ----- ------ ------ ------ Monik : 1833 71 60 96 51.0 % 1826 18.8 % TSCP : 1811 49 47 187 44.7 % 1848 13.4 % LarsenVB : 1758 200 169 15 30.0 % 1905 20.0 % Zephyr : 1743 133 67 58 23.3 % 1950 12.1 % SnailSCP : 1735 111 70 60 29.2 % 1889 15.0 % Noonian : 1724 125 47 99 18.7 % 1980 9.1 % Ozwald : 1721 65 64 97 42.3 % 1775 20.6 % Storm : 1655 120 47 109 22.5 % 1870 2.8 % MFChess : 1515 502 80 21 4.8 % 2036 0.0 % Golem01 : 1380 196 48 79 7.6 % 1814 10.1 % Raffaela : 1149 0 0 9 0.0 % 1749 0.0 % It looks from here loke TSCP is only about 1800 ELO. But at least half of the 187 games were made with older iterations of TSCP (1.4x) which had an ELO of about 1650 because it only used fixed ply for moving. Hence, I am guessing that the real ELO will be 2000 or so, once we have an accurate test set. So yes, it really is fairly strong for such a tiny program. If you compare the size of the binaries it is almost funny. I am quite sure that TSCP gets the most ELO per byte of binary of any program on earth.
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