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From: | Joseph Heled |
Subject: | Re: current development |
Date: | Thu, 30 Jan 2020 09:51:47 +1300 |
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 09:28:04AM +0000, Sarah Payne wrote:
> For sure, I would expect gnu still to have some playing strengths
> against xg. That’s what is so impressive: how it’s still as strong as
> it is with no new recent versions.
You wording is somewhat confusing. The last major versions of GNUbg
(1.0x) are more recent than XG2.
It went something like : GNUbg 0.90, then XG1 (about 5 Elo points
stronger at 2ply/GNU 3ply/XG), then XG2 (about 15 points stronger than
XG1), then GNUbg 1.0 (about 15 points stronger than 0.90 and 5 points
short of XG2). In addition, XG has its roller levels that give it
another advantage.
It was a bit disappointing to remain slightly weaker than XG2 but enough
of an improvement over GNUbg 0.90 to be worth releasing as it was rather
than wait for hypothetical further improvements.
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