Author: Uri Blass
Date: 22:42:10 06/10/02
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On June 10, 2002 at 22:29:44, Christophe Theron wrote: >On June 10, 2002 at 15:28:14, Rajen Gupta wrote: > >>i have read somewhere (i think it was hinted in one of the interviews which >>frank morsch gave to one of the indian newspapers)that at any given time, there >>are several different versions of fritz being developed:- the inference being >>that and the one that is actually released is not necessarily the strongest one; >>its the one that is just strong enough. >> >>frank morsch apparently has one ready whenever a new upstart arrives on the >>scene.i wont be surprised if there is no new fritz till something overtakes the >>current version. >> >>rajen > > > >It does not make sense. > >Look at the small margin between Fritz and the program just behind it (Tiger) on >the SSDF. > >Why would Frans take the risk of publishing an engine that might fail to achieve >the first place on the SSDF if he has something better? Maybe he does not know which engine is the best. The only way to be sure that engine A is better than engine B is by games. You can always have other tests in order to guess but they are only an estimate. I know that you say that you do not use games against other opponents but I think that it is a mistake. The fact that you probably have some test that usually gives the same results as games is a good reason to use that test for testing one change but when you decide to release a new version the only way to be sure that it is better is by a lot of games(unless the change is only doing tiger faster). Uri
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