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Subject: Re: CEGT 40/40 downloads and ratings updated

Author: Vasik Rajlich

Date: 17:13:53 01/17/06

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On January 17, 2006 at 11:04:40, Heinz van Kempen wrote:

>Hi Vas,
>
><<I am curious, what is your position about having an engine setting through
>which the tester indicates the playing level of the upcoming opponent?>
>
>I do not know if I understand correctly.. If the above sentence should mean that
>testers give for example optimistic value only against opponents with less than
>2700 ELO and default against the ones above, I doubt that most testers will like
>the idea.
>

I was thinking to have just a "spin" parameter where the tester indicates the
opponent's rating. (Or rating difference ..) All engines could in principle
expose such a parameter.

Of course nothing prevents me from giving such a parameter to normal users.

Vas

>Anyway in big tournaments like WCCC it will be advisable to adjust parameters
>correspondingly.
>
>Best Regards
>Heinz



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