Author: Joshua Haglund
Date: 06:45:26 02/03/05
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On February 03, 2005 at 02:50:57, Harald Faber wrote: >On February 02, 2005 at 12:37:37, Joshua Haglund wrote: > >>On February 02, 2005 at 10:43:37, gerold daniels wrote: >> >>>when tony tests it than all will know how good the new shedder 9 is. >>> >>>gerold. >> >>When tony tests it, it'll be done on obsolete hardware, at one time control, >>with probably less than 1k games. Leave it to the online chess servers to test >>it :) > > >Totally nonsense. On the servers people play with different machines and their >own so-called "tuned" books, sometimes even with own settings. It often occurs >that their "tuning" has an opposite effect and hurts the engine's play and thus >the results. So how can you say that such results have more weight than playing >on equal hardware and with the delivered opening book? > That's why I give chess engines an ELO RANGE. It covers the wide variety of time controls, hardware, books and settings, Not just one setting, long time controls on slow hardware. > >>When it has 5000 games it'll be ELO List Update, which will be a day or two >>after it comes out. > > >Wasted time. > The more games played the more accurate the results. Waiting 1 or 2 days isn't a waist of time to see 5000 games played at Playchess.com versus the mere handful played. > >>Playchess.com does a great job, > > >Rubbish. Read above. > Everyone is entitled to their opinion. :) In fact, I think ICC or the other chess servers should have database generated results too. Joshua Haglund toneewa@yahoo.com
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