Komodo on fire! Everybody out of the way! I propose a namechange. How about a special version, that has tablebases maybe and Don could call it 'nTCEC Rex' or 'Tablebase Rex' or more simply 'Rex'.
Stage 4, even with 6 full rounds, will leave much room for "random" rankings. The engines are so close that even a superfinal Gull vs. Naum is not impossible.
Stage 4, even with 6 full rounds, will leave much room for "random" rankings. The engines are so close that even a superfinal Gull vs. Naum is not impossible.
Gull vs. Naum Superfinal has only 0.4% chances to happen. Here are my general predictions (simulations) for the Stage 4 and the Superfinal:
Mike S. wrote:Interesting numbers. - Nevertheless, I do not doubt that Houdini will win the superfinal, as ususal. But the path to it will be exiting!
I the last nTCEC Houdini won against Stockfish 25-23 in the Superfinal. Now there is a 70+ points stronger Stockfish, and a multicore Komodo. Houdini dev. is improved compared to Houdini 3, but let's see how it fares against other two much improved engines.
Komodo on fire! Everybody out of the way! I propose a namechange. How about a special version, that has tablebases maybe and Don could call it 'nTCEC Rex' or 'Tablebase Rex' or more simply 'Rex'.
Mike S. wrote:Interesting numbers. - Nevertheless, I do not doubt that Houdini will win the superfinal, as ususal. But the path to it will be exiting!
I the last nTCEC Houdini won against Stockfish 25-23 in the Superfinal. Now there is a 70+ points stronger Stockfish, and a multicore Komodo. Houdini dev. is improved compared to Houdini 3, but let's see how it fares against other two much improved engines.
The latest SF 021113 is on par with H3 with contempt 0 on LTC (I still don't have enough games though to be conclusive, but it seams like that).
So talking about 70+ stronger SF in real world is just dreaming.
Mike S. wrote:Interesting numbers. - Nevertheless, I do not doubt that Houdini will win the superfinal, as ususal. But the path to it will be exiting!
I the last nTCEC Houdini won against Stockfish 25-23 in the Superfinal. Now there is a 70+ points stronger Stockfish, and a multicore Komodo. Houdini dev. is improved compared to Houdini 3, but let's see how it fares against other two much improved engines.
The latest SF 021113 is on par with H3 with contempt 0 on LTC (I still don't have enough games though to be conclusive, but it seams like that).
So talking about 70+ stronger SF in real world is just dreaming.
70+ points Stronger SF than the one which participated in season 1 and lost 23 to 25 to Houdini 3 in the Superfinal. Well, maybe in TCEC conditions 50 points is more reasonable. When we talk about ELO gains, we must always specify the time control and hardware.