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Subject: Updating engines during tournaments? almost anywhere

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 22:21:20 03/05/01

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On March 05, 2001 at 20:41:17, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>That's inconsistent with _reality_. All you have to do is go to a _real_
>computer chess tournament, like the annual WMCCC events, and just sit and
>watch.  Changes are made between rounds all the time.  Changes to the code
>is very common.  Changes to the book.  Changes to the engine parameters.
>
>Why is this different from Thorsten allowing someone to fix a known bug?

right.
it happens all the time.

>I'll bet Kasparov _does_ change between rounds.  He sees someone play a TN
>he hasn't seen.  you can bet by the time he meets that person OTB he has
>studied the TN and found a refutation.

right. humans "change" to because they learn. programs learn too. their
programmers make them learn or they learn themselves.
but it looks similar to me.
it would unrealistic NOT to allow an to play with buggy versions or
old ones just because of "consistency" IMO.



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