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Subject: Re: New SSDF list

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:40:45 11/28/99

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On November 28, 1999 at 10:42:29, pete wrote:

><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.


I don't have a clue about what you are talking about.  I didn't say or imply
anything.  I _asked_ a question...



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