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Subject: Re: Updating engines during tournaments? (Odyssee Tournament)

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 22:33:19 03/05/01

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On March 05, 2001 at 22:58:10, Martin Schubert wrote:
>That's rubbish. You will never be able to prove statistically/scientific, what
>is the best program. Because it doesn't exist. The best program. For what?
>Playing games against other engines? Against human? Analysing games? Whatever.
>The best program. Which time controls? Which hardware? With booklearning? With
>autoplayer? With tablebases?
>So you think, the SSDF shows you which program is the best? It doesn't. No list
>does.


right. i think people like andreas are victims or their own paradigm.
they believe in something they would like to exist, because they need
it to exist to support their theories. but reality is not interested
in this stuff.

>It is interesting to get a lot of information from a different places with
>different conditions. Then you can think about what is important for you.
>Thorsten does another approach as many people does. He does not count only the
>results. He lookes at the games. For me his tournament is much more interesting
>then Autoplayer-Match after Autoplayer-Match. For you it's the SSDF. It always
>depends on the purpose you're using a program for.

right. and don't forget: we are all ONE community. we all share the
computerchess hobby. noone has the wisdom alone on his side.
we can only try to share moments and to learn from each other since
we are ONE community.

nobody is the big king who knows everything better.


>Regards, Martin

best wishes
Thorsten



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