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Subject: Re: Shredder 10

Author: Henrik Dinesen

Date: 23:54:57 02/17/06

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On February 17, 2006 at 19:26:44, Uri Blass wrote:

>On February 17, 2006 at 16:42:01, Mridul Muralidharan wrote:
>
>>On February 17, 2006 at 14:47:01, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote:
>>
>>>right now there is over 100 point difference between shredder 9 and rybka 13b
>>>(cegt 40/40). The difference might increase another 10 to 50 points with endgame
>>>knowledge
>>>
>>>Historically, what is the largest increase a chess engine has made? I think
>>>fruit gained about 100 points at one point?
>>
>>I think it was mentioned that, among strong programs , HIARCS has been
>>consistently gaining 100 elo or so between versions. Same with fruit.
>>Among amateur programs, it is entirely different story - there have been even
>>350 elo or more improvements :-)
>>
>>Mridul
>
>This is not correct for hiarcs.
>
>Hiarcs10 is more than 100 elo better than hiarcs9 but it was not the case in the
>past.
>
>This is also misleading to say that hiarcs gain 100 elo between versions because
>no new hiarcs was released for a long time and the time between hiarcs9 and
>hiarcs10 is certainly more than one year.
>
In fact; Hiarcs 9 sep 2003, Hiarcs 10 dec 2005.

>Fruit usually gain 100 elo in clearly less time than one year.
>
>Uri



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