Author: Thoralf Karlsson
Date: 10:02:46 02/16/02
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On February 16, 2002 at 12:06:06, William H Rogers wrote: >I tried to email you withour any success. What do you have to do to get a >program entered into the testing? Does it rely on basic stength or does it >require winboard/xboard interface? Do you rate any program under 2000 elo? >It seems to me that years ago, I saw programs rated all of the way down to 1600 >or so, but then again I may be wrong. We mainly test commercially available chess programs for PCs. And we prefer to test fewer entrants with many games (read 500-600) instead of many programs with fewer games. If we have enough games with the commercial programs, we sometimes play with amateur programs. The likelyhood for an amateur program to be tested increases significantly if we already have received copies of it and if other tests indicates that the program seem to be rather strong. And of course, it must be possible to play automatically with it! We would not consider to play with a PC-program with estimated rating (only)around 2000. But if a new chess computer with a possible rating above 2000 arrives, and if we can borrow 1-2 copies, we would test it. We still have one or possibly two testers who are willing to play manually with chess computers. Thoralf Karlsson
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