Author: pete
Date: 07:42:29 11/28/99
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<snip> >Then that begs the question: how is he 'testing'? He isn't playing in any >public human events on any significant number of games. If you don't enter a >lot of human tournaments, and you don't play against computers, then what do >you test against? Certainly _not_ against yourself... That won't fly... > >However, in my case, I really don't give a swat... I have more than enough to >work on.. :) > <snip> Christophe Theron has posted more than once that he tests his program against human players of his country letting Tiger play on very slow hardware to improve it and that he doesn't own any modern chessprogram at all and only sometimes tests autoplay against fritz2 and genius5 to see if the autoplayer code still works . If you are aware of this you are in fact saying he didn't tell the truth but tests secretely against the top engines to find glitches in them ; this is no nice style if you have no proof.
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