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Subject: Re: First ... results are always better

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 08:25:50 02/02/05

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On February 02, 2005 at 10:33:24, Thomas Mayer wrote:

>Hi Franz,
>
>> PS: Many insider of European computerchess scene know that the above
>> mentioned tester has not the impartiality and he is known also as a main
>> censor in the biggest german computerforum.
>
>I believe you mismatch here something... The CSS-ratinglist ist maintained by
>Klaus Wlotzka -> who is IMHO a very honest person... and the list created by him
>is for sure one of the best and most objectiv rating-lists available. Of course
>concerned to the time control he is using,

The main concern is not about the time control he is using.
It is about the test conditions he is using.
It would be absolutely no big deal to optimize an engine to play the 10 opening
positions which are used much better than non-optimized engines.
What happens at SSDF in the opening is considerably less predictable.

Michael


but it definitely allows speculations
>about longer time controls.
>E.g. he was one of the first who head only a very small difference between
>Shredder 8 and 7.04... So when he has now a difference of 30 points I believe
>that Shredder did a huge step forward.
>
>Greets, Thomas



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