Author: Charles Unruh
Date: 17:39:23 11/27/99
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On November 27, 1999 at 17:33:13, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 27, 1999 at 12:18:07, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>I do not understand your point, Bob. This is not a match between two computers, >>but many. How a program could do well just tuning against Tiger? Maybe that >>could mean to un-tune against any other of the concurrence. Maybe some opening >>preparations, but... >>Fernando > > >This is easy. A year ago, due to some unusual new eval features I added, I >ended up with a version that had very little trouble with Fritz 5 at any time >control. It won so many games that Lonnie accused me of using a Cray to play >against him. If I sent _that_ version to the SSDF for testing, it would have >done very well against fritz, because fritz would be totally unprepared. But >once they saw what was happening, some adjusting on their end (king safety and >passed pawns in particular) and this advantage would have eyvaporated. > >Almost always the _last released_ program goes to the top of the SSDF. In this >case, it is an _unreleased_ version, which means _nobody_ had a chance to look >at the book, and the depth, at the evals, and find out what it is doing.... > >Sort of an "element of surprise"... What about CM, ut vecame #1 and i highly doubt that it was tuned against any prog. Further it doesn't even have book learning, or a specially tuned book. It got to be #1 simply by playing the best chess overall.
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