Gabor Szots wrote: ↑Sat Oct 16, 2021 8:56 am
So in the case of Princhess the rating you find at CCRL is not an overestimation owing to adjudicating wins when it may not have been able to win. Either it checkmated the opponent or the opponent resigned of its own accord.
Adjudication is not the same as resigning on own accord. Adjudication is like a referee saying:
Ref: "Hm... White is up 10 points of material here. Black, do you agree with thtat?"
Black: "Yes."
Ref: "Game over, white wins."
If you score games like that, and it's even combined with using Syzygy for mating (which would be a weak player consulting a book to look up K+R vs K mate), you _will_ overestimate the real strength of the engine. It's also obvious why, because the engine gets a lot of outside help: adjudication on material advantage, and book knowledge about endgames through the table bases. Reaching a winning position is enough to either win the game by referee, or by looking up how to actually win it.
At the moment, Princhess is like that generally strong club player that gets a winning position against about anyone else in the club, but then doesn't have the knowledge on how to finish it off. And after that becomes common knowledge, no-one will ever resign against this player. He or she will therefore probably not become the club champion.
So yes, Princhess _would_ be around 1815 - 1865, if the engine could indeed win the winning positions.