Author: Albert Silver
Date: 05:15:39 02/17/02
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On February 16, 2002 at 13:02:46, Thoralf Karlsson wrote: >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! Will you be testing Goliath Blitz, a commercial program distributed by the Chess Academy people? Albert > >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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