Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 06:38:29 03/06/01
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On March 05, 2001 at 16:22:45, Dann Corbit wrote: >Scientifically, you are right, and I run my tournaments that way. If they are >intended purely for entertainment, then who cares? >;-) >You can always argue it both ways. Consider the crippled ChessMaster version >that does not use its allotted time to think. On the one hand: The outcome of >that program will not be nearly so strong as it ought. On the other hand: Many >people will have only the CD with the version which does not think long enough. >On the other, other hand: If you change in mid-stream, it won't be as strong as >the patched version nor as weak as the pre-patched version. On the other, >other, other hand... >etc. Indeed. I thought to Ponder or not to Ponder was a big issue. This looks almost as big..Time to update my article on running computer chess tournaments to include this issue.. Kinda of a summary of the views here, but it looks to me a majority don't see anything wrong with upgrading espically if it's just to fix a bug.. Even the extremely "scientific" inclined ones, don't seem to be extremely motivated to defend the line of not upgrading. Aaron
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